Leonardo's Horse

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Choose the main idea of the passage:

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Leonardo da Vinci was a very talented person.

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Pick the detail from the passage does not support the idea that Leonardo was a talented person? Options: “He had to bring his own experience into whatever he painted.”, “He visited the stables.”, “He could make a bronze horse.”, “he knew where all the bones and muscles of a horse were.”

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“He visited the stables.”

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What did Leonardo think about other artists' statues of horses?

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He noted that many horse statues did not look natural.

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Choose the reason Leonardo wanted to go to Milan? Options: to convince the duke to let him paint a large religious picture, to deliver a silver flute to the ruler Lorenzo de’ Medici, to convince the duke to let him make a bronze horse, to take charge of entertainment at the duke’s palace

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to convince the duke to let him make a bronze horse

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Which sentence contains an opinion?

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“Leonardo was thirty years old now, handsome with curly blond hair.”

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In Greek, the word “mousikê” comes from a word that describes special beings that inspire arts or sciences. Which word from the passage most likely has “mousikê” as its root?

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musician

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What is the meaning of the word palace in the context of the Latin word "palatium", which refers to the location in Rome where the emperors’ houses stood?

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home of an important person

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Pick the sentence which best explains the meaning of the simile in the following sentence:
“But you couldn’t show all the muscles on a statue, he said, or the horse would look like a bag of turnips.”

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The horse would look lumpy and misshapen.

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What is the meaning of the word part in the following sentence? "He had planned the picture and that was an important part?"

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one portion of a total amount

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Which detail from the reading is the best clue to the meaning of “part”? Options: “He could make cannons,” “He had planned the picture,” “couldn’t be broken or harmed.”, “So he wrote to the duke,”

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“He had planned the picture”