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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. Leonardo's packing list for his journey to enter the service of Cesare Borgia did NOT include which of the following items?
(a) A pair of compasses.
(b) A book of white paper for drawing.
(c) A scalpel.
(d) A sword belt.

2. Leonardo's work Madonna of the Yarnwinder was completed at the request of which courtier within the court of Louis XII?
(a) His scribe.
(b) His secretary.
(c) His court jester.
(d) His treasurer.

3. Leonardo first tackled the complexities of depicting shadows when drawing what kinds of objects during his training in Verrocchio's art studio?
(a) Pieces of fruit.
(b) Hands.
(c) Draperies.
(d) Columns.

4. Santissima Annunziata had a library with how many volumes of books?
(a) 500.
(b) 3,600.
(c) 2,400.
(d) 5,000.

5. In 2009, technicians were able to use infrared imaging techniques in order to expose what hidden piece of Leonardo's first version of Virgin of the Rocks?
(a) Three wise men who had been removed from the final piece.
(b) An underdrawing used to compose the painting.
(c) Three prophets who had been removed from the final piece.
(d) A second painting under the first.

Short Answer Questions

1. The most basic anatomical knowledge for a painter is the study of what?

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

3. Leonardo wrote that what type of light is best for a portrait?

4. Leonardo's Madonna of the Yardwinder is about the size of what?

5. One of Leonardo's most famous lost paintings is entitled Lena and the what?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Leonardo moved to Milan in 1482, what did he discover about the study of anatomy in that location?

2. How did Leonardo use his knowledge of geology to inform his painting of Virgin of the Rocks?

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

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

5. 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?

6. On whom was the painting Lady with an Ermine based?

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

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

9. What is the significance of the inventory Leonardo made of a trunk of clothing sometime between 1500 and 1506?

10. What does Walter Isaacson point to in Leonardo's creation of the painting Virgin of the Rocks that he says illustrates Leonardo's insistence on realism in his art?

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