Leonardo's Horse Reading Comprehension

What is the genre of "Leonardo's Horse"?

• Autobiography

• Biography

• Folk Tale

• Expository Text

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

What did Leonardo do as a young boy that might have made people guess he would be an artist?

• He was always coloring.

• He was always painting.

• He stopped to examine everything.

• He collected artwork from his friends.

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

What made Leonardo different from the other people of his time?

• He dressed differently.

• He wrote differently.

• He didn't eat meat.

• All of the above

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Why was he so interested in watching the birds fly away?

• He wanted to discover the secret of their flying so he could build a flying machine for himself.

• He didn't want other people to eat them.

• He loved the color of their feathers as they flew into the sunset.

• He was amazed at how high they could fly.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

Leonardo lived during the Renaissance time period. Why was it called this?

• People were manufacturing cars.

• People read a lot of books during this time.

• People were exploring new countries, discovering, inventing, and looking at old things in a new way.

• People were bored with hunting.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

Why was Leonardo lucky to be chosen to deliver a gift to the duke of Milan?

• Leonardo knew the duke wanted to learn how to draw.

• Leonardo knew the duke wanted to honor his father with a bronze horse.

• Leonardo was the only one that could speak the same language.

• Leonardo had become friends with the duke in school.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RI.1.1

Why did Leonardo spend so much time in the stables?

• He was training the horses to ride.

• He needed to understand everything about horses in able to create the statue accurately.

• He made friends with the stable hand.

• The duke gave him a horse to take care of everyday.

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

Why did Leonardo think the hardest part of the statue creation would be the casting?

• The clay kept getting hard.

• The drawings kept getting smudged.

• The horses wouldn't stand still during the posing.

• There was an enormous amount of metal to heat and pour all at once.

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

What eventually happened to the clay model that Leonardo had created?

• It was shot full of arrows.

• It dissolved in a rain storm.

• Both A and B

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.10

What was Leonardo's greatest disappointment?

• He never created a flying machine.

• He never completed painting the chapel.

• He never completed his horse.

• He never visited America.

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2