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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. 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?
(a) Sculptors.
(b) Medical scholars.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Clerics.

2. The drawing entitled Head of a Young Woman is an "exquisite example of Leonardo's use of" what "to create shadows and texture"? (234)
(a) Doodling.
(b) Stippling.
(c) Scribbing.
(d) Hatching.

3. When Leonardo first came to Milan in 1482, he had hopes of working primarily as a what?
(a) An engineer.
(b) A court physician.
(c) A producer of theater productions.
(d) A portraitist.

4. In the mid-1490s, Leonardo halted his study of anatomy, and would not return to the subject for how many years?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

5. Santissima Annunziata was located three blocks away from the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital, where Leonardo conducted what activity?
(a) Receiving blood treatments.
(b) Conducting experiments on patients.
(c) Dissections.
(d) Nursing the injured.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo's initial anatomy studies of 1489 focused on what part of the body?

2. 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?

3. The parts of a scene that get the most direct light have the greatest saturation of what?

4. The center of medical research in Milan during the Renaissance was what university?

5. Around the time Leonardo was working on his work entitled Salvator Mundi, he was doing optic studies that investigated how the eyes perform what action?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When Leonardo returned to Florence in 1500, how had Florence changed in the time he had been away?

4. While Leonardo came to the court of Ludovico Sforza hoping to work primarily as a military and civil engineer, what was the nature of most of the work he completed in the decade he was in service to Ludovico Sforza?

5. 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?

6. What evidence is presented that points toward Leonardo respecting and enjoying the intellectual findings of his friends and peers?

7. What evidence does Walter Isaacson provide for his claim that much of Leonardo's thinking was collegial?

8. What are the two possibilities concerning the angel's identity within the painting Virgin of the Rocks?

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

10. 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?

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