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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. Santissima Annunziata was located three blocks away from the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital, where Leonardo conducted what activity?
2. One of Leonardo's most famous lost paintings is entitled Lena and the what?
3. The drawing entitled Head of a Young Woman is an "exquisite example of Leonardo's use of" what "to create shadows and texture"? (234)
4. Leonardo's Madonna of the Yardwinder is about the size of what?
5. The first version of Leonardo's painting Virgin of the Rocks was completed in what year?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What was the event known as the Bonfire of the Vanities?
3. What novel idea did Leonardo come up with for protecting a port, an idea which he never brought to fruition?
4. What was the significance of Leonardo's depiction of the human frontal sinus?
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 reason did Leonardo write in his notebook for his decision not to publicize his findings about how to remain underwater for a long time?
7. What evidence is presented that points toward Leonardo respecting and enjoying the intellectual findings of his friends and peers?
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. 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?
10. What is the significance of the inventory Leonardo made of a trunk of clothing sometime between 1500 and 1506?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What ultimate message is Walter Isaacson's biography sending about the nature and value of collaboration?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the author's decision to include full-color images of Leonardo's work within the text. What purpose did he have in mind when including these images and how does the inclusion of these images support the overarching themes and messages of the text? Back up your strong, specific claim about the author's use of photographs with concrete details from the images he includes in the book.
Essay Topic 3
What is the author's message regarding human flaws?
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