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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. How tall was Michelangelo's statue David?
2. From what age had Isabella been betrothed to Francesco Gonzaga, the Marquess of Mantua, when they married?
3. When he returned to Florence once again in 1500, Leonardo set up what type of workshop?
4. How did Florence save itself from plunder by Cesare Borgia and his armies?
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?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How did Leonardo use his knowledge of geology to inform his painting of Virgin of the Rocks?
3. What types of commissions did Leonardo refuse to accept?
4. What was the event known as the Bonfire of the Vanities?
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. What is the significance of the inventory Leonardo made of a trunk of clothing sometime between 1500 and 1506?
7. 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?
8. 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?
9. What are the two possibilities concerning the angel's identity within the painting Virgin of the Rocks?
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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the book's message regarding the search for fame and posterity?
Essay Topic 2
How does Walter Isaacson utilize irony within the text? Discuss at least three uses of irony within the book and explore each instance's connection to larger themes contained within the narrative.
Essay Topic 3
What ultimate message is Walter Isaacson's biography sending about the nature and value of collaboration?
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