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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Leonardo's favorite branch of mathematics?
(a) Statistics.
(b) Geometry.
(c) Calculus.
(d) Algebra.

2. What height did Leonardo plan his horse monument to reach once completed?
(a) 20 feet.
(b) 51 feet.
(c) 23 feet.
(d) 14 feet.

3. Leonardo's memory of a bird hovering above his crib when he was an infant involved what type of bird?
(a) A bluebird.
(b) A kite.
(c) An eagle.
(d) An osprey.

4. In the same year that Leonardo was born, Italy began a period of how many peaceful years without war?
(a) 40 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 90 years.
(d) 30 years.

5. When Sigmund Freud wrote a short book psychoanalyzing Leonardo's memory of a bird hovering over his crib, Freud mistakenly analyzed the symbolism of what type of bird visiting Leonardo?
(a) A starling.
(b) A crane.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A vulture.

6. In what year did Johannes Gutenberg begin selling Bibles created on his newly-invented printing press?
(a) 1489.
(b) 1501.
(c) 1452.
(d) 1348.

7. Throughout his life, Leonardo devised how many different formulas for squaring a circular shape?
(a) 169.
(b) 39.
(c) 212.
(d) 64.

8. Of what material was the horse monument to be made?
(a) Copper.
(b) Silver.
(c) Plaster.
(d) Bronze.

9. Walter Isaacson states that Leonardo's Vitruvian Man perfectly symbolizes the ideal of what?
(a) Aesthetic beauty.
(b) Individuality.
(c) Humanism.
(d) Science.

10. Leonardo followed what type of restrictive diet throughout his life?
(a) Fruitarian.
(b) Pescatarian.
(c) Vegetarian.
(d) Pollotarian.

11. Leonardo's first studies of flight were completed as a means to create which type of art?
(a) Storytelling.
(b) Sculpture.
(c) Painting.
(d) Drama.

12. What item of clothing did Leonardo insist upon wearing, even though it was antithetical to the fashions of the time?
(a) An ascot.
(b) Cunibert shoes.
(c) Breeches.
(d) A knee-length cloak.

13. In the late years of what decade did Leonardo begin to devise contraptions that would enable human flight?
(a) 1500s.
(b) 1490s.
(c) 1480s.
(d) 1460s.

14. Leonardo's work entitled Codex Madrid I is largely devoted to the design of what?
(a) Irrigation techniques.
(b) A perpetual motion machine.
(c) More efficient machinery.
(d) River diversion techniques.

15. Lorenzo de' Medici, a great supporter of the arts in Florence, founded and funded Florence's first public what?
(a) Art studio.
(b) Zoo.
(c) Museum.
(d) Library.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Leonardo when Salai came to live with him?

2. What was the population of Florence in 1300 before the devastation caused by the Black Death?

3. Leonardo wrote that, "Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without" (175) what two items?

4. What term did Leonardo eventually use to describe the object he hoped would result in human flight due to the device's flapping wings?

5. The squaring of a circle was a concept first discovered and discussed by what great thinker?

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