Pages That Survived: teacher key

Leonardo da Vinci, grade 10 edition, written for 10th grade. Read how Leonardo da Vinci's loose papers became famous notebooks, and how people have studied them. Learn what the pages show about his flying machines, his engineering and his paintings.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. How did Leonardo's flying-machine ideas begin?
   • From his work on military technology for Milan's court (answer)
   • From a trip to the sea
   • From a village school
2. Who gathered the papers of the Codex Atlanticus?
   • Leonardo himself
   • Pompeo Leoni (answer)
   • The Duke of Milan
3. Why did Leonardo often begin a notebook at the last page?
   • Because he wrote in mirror writing (answer)
   • Because pages were missing
   • Because he disliked the first page
4. What did Leonardo write about in a notebook from about 1495?
   • How people at a table might be posed (answer)
   • How to sail a ship
   • How to cook
5. What did Leonardo see concave mirrors as?
   • Possible sources of heat (answer)
   • Paintings
   • Clocks
6. How many people may visit The Last Supper's church at once, as of November 2026?
   • 4
   • 40 (answer)
   • 400

Words

• Renaissance: a time
• sfumato: a misty style
• ornithopters: flapping machines
• composition: how things fit
• reconnaissance: spying from above