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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Visual perception occurs along the entire area of what part of the eye?
(a) The retina.
(b) The vitreous humor.
(c) The iris.
(d) The pupil.

2. Around the time Leonardo began his most famous lost painting, he also undertook what life change?
(a) Adoption.
(b) Baptism.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Relocation.

3. The typical human has how many teeth?
(a) 24.
(b) 36.
(c) 32.
(d) 38.

4. In the world of the Renaissance, what did a white ermine represent?
(a) Elegance.
(b) Purity.
(c) Wrath.
(d) Style.

5. Leonardo believed that the secret to modeling three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface was not the use of lines, but instead the use of what?
(a) Crosshatching.
(b) Stippling.
(c) Shadows.
(d) Curves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo's first version of the painting Virgin of the Rocks is housed in what museum?

2. When Leonardo entered the service of Cesare Borgia at the age of 50, how old was Cesare Borgia?

3. Authenticity of Renaissance paintings can be difficult to prove due to what habit of the era's painters?

4. During his prolonged study of optics, Leonardo dissected the eyes of humans and what other animal?

5. While the study of anatomy was pursued primarily by artists in Florence, the study of anatomy in Milan was undertaken mostly by what group of people?

Short Essay Questions

1. What novel idea did Leonardo come up with for protecting a port, an idea which he never brought to fruition?

2. What types of commissions did Leonardo refuse to accept?

3. What were the two colors most favored by Leonardo in the tailoring of both his clothes and the clothes of Salai?

4. What was the event known as the Bonfire of the Vanities?

5. What reason did Leonardo write in his notebook for his decision not to publicize his findings about how to remain underwater for a long time?

6. What signature element of Leonardo's paintings is missing from the second version of Virgin of the Rocks but is present in the first version?

7. In one of Leonardo's notebooks, he professed his intention to understand what he called universale misura del huomo. What did Leonardo mean by this?

8. How does Walter Isaacson link the qualities of genius and the qualities of obsession within the chapter about Leonardo's first round of anatomy studies?

9. Though Leonardo had completed the central part of his painting Saint Anne by 1503, he did not give it to the party who had commissioned it. What did he do with it instead?

10. In the mid-1490s, Leonardo put aside his work on anatomy and would not return to it for another decade. What endeavor did he begin upon dropping his anatomy studies?

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