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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Overton Irwin, Robert's father, ran a successful ____________________ business until he lost everything in the Depression.
(a) Construction.
(b) Plumbing.
(c) Flooring.
(d) Heating and air conditioning.

2. One of the first steps he takes is what?
(a) To pare down the number of artists at Ferus.
(b) To look for funding.
(c) To bring in new artists.
(d) To start a school at the gallery.

3. By age _____________, Robert returns to Los Angeles.
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Nineteen.

4. The entrepreneur not only admires Irwin's art but also what?
(a) His religious background.
(b) His easy-going personality.
(c) His determination and ambition to succeed.
(d) His love of New York.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After graduating from high school, Robert's buddies convince him to join them in doing what?

2. As a young teen who loves music, Irwin teaches himself to do what?

3. His mother, like most other mothers, loved Robert's childhood drawings, but did the family focus on art or visit museums?

4. Southern Californians can have instantaneous and intimate conversations with whom?

5. That Irwin's childhood recollections reside mainly as _____________________ is a clue that his strong connection to the visual was present very early in life.

(see the answer key)

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