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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It was in whose honor that Irwin wrote the unproduced screenplay The Green and the White?
(a) Joan Tewkesbury.
(b) Joan Tipograph.
(c) Joan Tisch.
(d) Joan Templeman.

2. To what does Robert partially attribute to growing up here in the 1940s?
(a) His dark tan.
(b) His easy sense of well-being.
(c) His interest in the arts.
(d) His love of the ocean.

3. As a young teen who loves music, Irwin teaches himself to do what?
(a) Play the guitar.
(b) Play the piano.
(c) Dance.
(d) Sing.

4. Although many art critics disagree, Irwin connects his love of what to his later emergence as an artist--especially in the realm of folk art?
(a) Girls.
(b) School.
(c) Cars.
(d) Music.

5. It is then that Robert realizes how unhappy he is with what?
(a) Himself.
(b) Being an artist.
(c) His life.
(d) His work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Robert was a ______________ child who could perceive danger and cope with it.

2. Robert loves school only for what?

3. Irwin feels he got his drive to accomplish from whom?

4. As an art student, Robert is both _________________.

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

(see the answer key)

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