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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 fashions worn by the subject of Lady with an Ermine became fashionable in Milan in 1489 when Gian Galeazzo Sforza was married to whom?
2. Ludovico Sforza committed what act in order to seize the ducal crown?
3. Cesare Borgia became the first man in history to perform what action?
4. What type of paint did Leonardo use to create the work entitled Lady with an Ermine?
5. When Leonardo made an inventory of clothes he had stored inside a trunk, whose clothes were listed as being intermingled with his own?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Leonardo moved to Milan in 1482, what did he discover about the study of anatomy in that location?
2. What reasons did Leonardo have for always wanting to portray portrait subjects facing the viewer or in three-quarters view, contrary to the customary profile pose?
3. What was the significance of Leonardo's depiction of the human frontal sinus?
4. When Leonardo returned to Florence in 1500, how had Florence changed in the time he had been away?
5. 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?
6. What was the event known as the Bonfire of the Vanities?
7. What types of commissions did Leonardo refuse to accept?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the author's message regarding human flaws?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss three different women that appear within the book's narrative and compare and contrast their characteristics. How do their roles differ and how are their roles similar? Taken together, what depiction of women is present in the overall narrative of Walter Isaacson's book? Choose concrete details about all three women to support your points.
Essay Topic 3
Choose a symbolic object from the book, such as Leonardo's inventory of the clothing trunk, Leonardo's short rose-colored cloak, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text.
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