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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. The Florentine tradition known as disegno lineamentum used what to create forms and designs?
2. When Leonardo went to Venice in 1500 in order to offer military advice to defend against a threatened invasion, which country was threatening to invade Venice?
3. Ludovico Sforza committed what act in order to seize the ducal crown?
4. Who used Cesare Borgia as a model of cleverness in his work The Prince?
5. Cesare Borgia became the first man in history to perform what action?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What is the significance of the inventory Leonardo made of a trunk of clothing sometime between 1500 and 1506?
3. 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?
4. When Leonardo returned to Florence in 1500, how had Florence changed in the time he had been away?
5. When Leonardo moved to Milan in 1482, what did he discover about the study of anatomy in that location?
6. What were the two colors most favored by Leonardo in the tailoring of both his clothes and the clothes of Salai?
7. What was the event known as the Bonfire of the Vanities?
8. What evidence does Walter Isaacson provide for his claim that much of Leonardo's thinking was collegial?
9. What types of commissions did Leonardo refuse to accept?
10. What novel idea did Leonardo come up with for protecting a port, an idea which he never brought to fruition?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the author's message regarding intrinsic motivation versus extrinsic motivation within his biography of Leonardo da Vinci?
Essay Topic 2
What is the book's message regarding the search for fame and posterity?
Essay Topic 3
How is the theme of eccentricity depicted within the narrative of Walter Isaacson's book?
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