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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In viewing Irwin's dots, what happened to distinguished art critic Philip Leider?
(a) He became dizzy and fell down.
(b) He fell under the exact spell the artist had hoped for.
(c) He became angry and destroyed one of the paintings.
(d) He became emotionally disturbed and had to leave the gallery.

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

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

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

6. After graduating from high school, Robert's buddies convince him to join them in doing what?
(a) Signing up for the military.
(b) Going to college.
(c) Studying art.
(d) Traveling the world.

7. What is the undisputed capital of art in America?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Miami.

8. Irwin displays his line drawings at Ferus and at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York. He attempts to adjust what to duplicate the conditions of his studio?
(a) The room temperature.
(b) The sounds in the room.
(c) The light and room color and configuration.
(d) The lighting in the room.

9. Irwin takes a giant leap between 1962 and ___________ in the production of his ten late line paintings.
(a) 1964.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1967.

10. After leaving art school, Irwin spends many months and years in Europe over the course of the next ______ years.
(a) Ten.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Five.
(d) Fifteen.

11. Irwin's family is part of what social class?
(a) Upper middle class.
(b) Lower class.
(c) Working middle class.
(d) Upper class.

12. By painstakingly creating red then ___________ dots, all closely aligned, on a ultra-white surface, Irwin is able to create energy.
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Orange.

13. As a young teen who loves music, Irwin teaches himself to do what?
(a) Dance.
(b) Play the guitar.
(c) Play the piano.
(d) Sing.

14. Irwin asks himself, "How does one paint a painting without ___________?" (p. 87).
(a) Texture.
(b) Shape.
(c) A linear mark.
(d) Color.

15. What Irwin strives to do is create not a color field, but rather what?
(a) A minute spot of color.
(b) A color palette.
(c) A lack of color field.
(d) A field of color energy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irwin was not one of the original artists, but is he chosen to be in the new group?

2. Goldie, Robert's mother, was the thinker and ___________ of the family.

3. Questions that arise within Irwin himself about his line drawings leads him to advance to what?

4. Irwin takes his lead from master artist _____________, who in creating a multitude of paintings always uses the same subjects--a set of bottles.

5. This period chronicles Irwin's transformation from abstract impressionist to ________________ artisan.

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