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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14 and 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. Now, with no such material objects in his life, Irwin has to do what?
(a) Learn a new way of thinking.
(b) Give up on his art career.
(c) Create art out of nothing.
(d) Find new materials.

4. To enhance the introspection of their processes, some of the Ferus artists become practitioners of what?
(a) Palm reading.
(b) Zen Buddhism.
(c) Zen and other Asian philosophies.
(d) Christianity.

5. Where did Robert Irwin grow up?
(a) Southeast Los Angeles.
(b) Southwest Los Angeles.
(c) Northeast Los Angeles.
(d) Northwest Los Angeles.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Robert's early days, subjects include what?

3. As more of Irwin's works go on display and are sold, what happens to Irwin?

4. At Ferus, Robert feels the need to do what?

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

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