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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. While the horse monument was never completed, Leonardo did complete a model of the monument out of what material?
2. How old was Salai when he came to live with Leonardo?
3. In what year did Leonardo and Francesco travel to Pavia to observe and translate the manuscript of Vitruvius?
4. What was Leonardo's favorite branch of mathematics?
5. One reason Leonardo could not devise how to square a circle is that a mathematical process for squaring a circle cannot be done with just a compass and a ruler. Instead, it requires what type of number?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is chiaroscuro and how did Leonardo employ it?
2. The essayist Benedetto Dei wrote in 1972 that Florence "has all seven of the fundamental things a city requires for perfection" (26). What were the seven things he named?
3. What were the main techniques Leonardo adopted from his mentor, Andrea del Verrocchio, that would go on to be featured prominently in all of Leonardo's later works?
4. How did Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the printing press in 1452 affect Leonardo's life and work?
5. What symbolism did Leonardo see in the reeds he included in his drawing of Pleasure and Pain?
6. How did the books included in Leonardo's personal library inventory in 1492 represent the extreme diversity of his interests?
7. What information was recently discovered in 2017 about Leonardo's birth mother?
8. What were the underlying reasons for Leonardo's vegetarianism?
9. What was the reason that Leonardo's horse monument was never completed?
10. What was the main source of information used by Walter Isaacson in his writing of Leonardo's biography?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine Walter Isaacson's use of characterization methods to portray his biography subject, Leonardo. What effect do these characterization methods have on the book's inherent themes and messages?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the significance of the coda that is placed by the author just after the body of the narrative ends. How do its themes connect to the overall themes within the biography?
Essay Topic 3
What is the author's message regarding intrinsic motivation versus extrinsic motivation within his biography of Leonardo da Vinci?
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