Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Lawrence Weschler
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Lawrence Weschler
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 142 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Robert wind up in Europe?
(a) He is transferred to the regular Army due to an injury.
(b) He visits friends.
(c) He attends college in Paris.
(d) He runs out of money in Rome.

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

4. Does Robert claim any discomfiture in his youth?
(a) Yes, very little.
(b) No.
(c) Yes, a great deal.
(d) Yes, some.

5. Irwin's mother confirms that her son does not like to think of what?
(a) Himself.
(b) Unpleasant things.
(c) Others.
(d) School.

Short Answer Questions

1. Robert's dissatisfaction with Jepson then leads him to the Chouinard Art Institute, where he focuses on what?

2. Due to his school's proximity to what, Irwin becomes interested in gambling?

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

4. Blum regrets that some of the gallery's artists fail to move _______________ where they could be successful.

5. Upon his return, he immediately enrolls in the Otis Art Institute--claiming he knew he would be an artist even before when?

(see the answer key)

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