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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irwin ponders the possibility that the Whitney display may be what?
(a) The beginning of a new series of work.
(b) His last foray into art.
(c) His last days in the U.S.
(d) The end of an era.

2. Irwin focuses self-critique on the ______________ of the work.
(a) Unity.
(b) Form.
(c) Balance.
(d) Movement.

3. What does Irwin feel will help clear his mind in his journey of discovery?
(a) The heat of the desert.
(b) The business of the city.
(c) The vastness of the ocean.
(d) The barrenness of the desert.

4. Descartes argued that the fundamental moment when everything is stripped away occurred where?
(a) In the cogito.
(b) In the congo.
(c) In the incognito.
(d) In the cognito.

5. Irwin's goal is to create art that leaves the observer how?
(a) Content.
(b) Confused.
(c) Anxious.
(d) In a meditative state.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the first steps he takes is what?

2. With what does Ferus present Irwin?

3. In 1970, the young curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York invites the controversial Robert Irwin to do what?

4. In viewing Irwin's dots, what happened to distinguished art critic Philip Leider?

5. There is nothing Irwin likes more than cruising around L.A. at any time of the day or night and stopping to do what?

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