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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 through 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irwin leaves others to interpret while he contemplates what?
(a) Rebuilding a car.
(b) Working on his marriage.
(c) Ending his career as an artist.
(d) Moving back to Europe.

2. His dissatisfaction compels him to begin an association with what Gallery, which fostered the coming of age of the modernist artist in LA in the sixties?
(a) Papillon Gallery.
(b) Subliminal Projects Gallery.
(c) The Ferus Gallery.
(d) DF2 Gallery.

3. Through his ongoing process, Irwin ultimately concludes that __________________ is the best possible element to establish gestural integrity and one with the least amount of possibility for literal association.
(a) The circle.
(b) Pattern.
(c) Color.
(d) The straight line.

4. It is during his association with this gallery that Irwin evolves from a figurative painter to what?
(a) A minimalist.
(b) A cubist.
(c) An abstract expressionist.
(d) An abstract impressionist.

5. What engendered the solitary life that Irwin came to experience is what?
(a) An unknown.
(b) Noticeable in his mother.
(c) Seen in his father's personality.
(d) Due to his family's lack of understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. To enhance the introspection of their processes, some of the Ferus artists become practitioners of what?

2. There was only one commonality between father and son and that was what?

3. What three elements are equally positive?

4. Irwin's years of striving for perfection and precision in what is now echoed in his works as an artist?

5. Robert's mother apparently provided Robert with an ethical foundation and his father indoctrinated him with what?

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