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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Although the level of artistry is superb in Irwin's eyes, this gallery is not making many sales--which they need in order to stay in business. Who comes to the rescue and greatly improves the fiscal operation of the gallery?
(a) Irving Berlin.
(b) Ira Bernstein.
(c) Irving Blum.
(d) Irwin Bloomingdale.

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

3. His mother, like most other mothers, loved Robert's childhood drawings, but did the family focus on art or visit museums?
(a) Yes, rarely.
(b) Yes, frequently.
(c) Yes, sometimes.
(d) No.

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

5. Irwin's mother is upset and tries to convince him that bad things will come his way if he does what?
(a) Turns his back on the church.
(b) Attends another church.
(c) Drops out of school.
(d) Continues to gamble.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irwin and his brother attend what church with their mother?

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

3. Although there was an innate pride in his son's modern art, Overton____________ it less than his wife.

4. How much of an effect do the repercussions from World War II have upon Irwin and his buddies?

5. It is then that Robert realizes how unhappy he is with what?

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