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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Irwin strives to turn himself over to what?
(a) Art.
(b) God.
(c) Fate.
(d) The canvas.

3. Goldie, Robert's mother, was the thinker and ___________ of the family.
(a) Leader.
(b) Doer.
(c) Worrier.
(d) Organizer.

4. Although Irwin probably was not familiar with whose philosophy of "The Rotation Method," the philosopher's conclusion that fertility is created through self-limitation shines through in his work?
(a) Katz.
(b) Kuhn.
(c) Koestler.
(d) Kierkegaard's.

5. There was only one commonality between father and son and that was what?
(a) Love of music.
(b) Love of art.
(c) Love of work.
(d) Love of sports.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irwin focuses self-critique on the ______________ of the work.

2. What engendered the solitary life that Irwin came to experience is what?

3. To the entrepreneur, Irwin is exceptional and thus was able to do what?

4. To bring focus to the emotional element of his work, Irwin creates a series of ____________ paintings.

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

(see the answer key)

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