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

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 Blum.
(b) Irving Berlin.
(c) Irwin Bloomingdale.
(d) Ira Bernstein.

2. In 1975, he participates in ______________________ show.
(a) The San Francisco MoMA.
(b) The MoMA.
(c) The LACMA.
(d) The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art.

3. Irwin is badgered by the seeming arbitrariness of the __________ created in the dots painting in their confinement to the canvas.
(a) Life.
(b) Color.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Energy.

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

5. He cut short his time in Europe by doing what?
(a) Quitting his job and returning home.
(b) Exchanging one year of active duty for three years in the army reserve.
(c) Self inflicting a wound.
(d) Getting a transfer from the European branch of a company to the California branch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irwin's discomfort with paintings that encompass the edges of the canvas leads him to move on to painting what?

2. Robert installs a project in a museum to make what case?

3. With what does Ferus present Irwin?

4. How does Robert wind up in Europe?

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

(see the answer key)

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