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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irwin is intrigued by the concept of becoming ________________ which held the dual challenge of becoming responsible.
(a) Reversible.
(b) Reliable.
(c) Reasonable.
(d) Retrievable.

2. The room implicitly represents what?
(a) The Mojave Desert.
(b) Simplicity.
(c) A journey to a new beginning.
(d) Happiness.

3. At a 1971 display at UCLA's museum, Irwin redoes a utility stairway with what?
(a) New lighting and other minor adjustments.
(b) A new color palette.
(c) A new railing.
(d) New stairs.

4. During this time period, Irwin works on __________ projects.
(a) Scrim.
(b) Dot.
(c) Disc.
(d) Line.

5. There is a thin black ________ around the room at eye level.
(a) Series of circles.
(b) String of pearls.
(c) Line.
(d) String.

6. I think therefore _____________.
(a) I have intelligence.
(b) I am.
(c) I believe.
(d) I matter.

7. Describe his writing.
(a) Simple and straightforward.
(b) Dry and boring.
(c) Flowery and detailed.
(d) Convoluted, mired in itself and rambling.

8. Do many viewers "get it?"
(a) Yes, some.
(b) Yes, many.
(c) Yes, but very few.
(d) No.

9. Robert's focus now becomes what?
(a) The floor and ceiling.
(b) The windows.
(c) The viewer.
(d) The lighting and the walls of the room.

10. How do young artists view Irwin?
(a) They view him as just another contemporary artist.
(b) They see him as an artist to mimic.
(c) They view him as a celebrity.
(d) They look up to him as a theorist and ideological mentor.

11. The passion of Irwin's career has been continually fighting what?
(a) The difficult premise that art is a metaphor of the present.
(b) The difficult premise that art is a metaphor of the future.
(c) The difficult premise that art is a metaphor of the world.
(d) The difficult premise that art is a metaphor of the past.

12. It is in ___________________ that the two disciplines, art and science, have grown separately.
(a) Lithographic times.
(b) Modern times.
(c) Ancient times.
(d) Prehistoric times.

13. What is the flaw with the discs?
(a) They are too heavy.
(b) They take up space.
(c) The viewers are still required to "look at something."
(d) They are not perfect.

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

15. ___________ years after the Whitney opening, Irwin is busy with multiple proposals for projects for cities and universities.
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Ten.
(d) Seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to changing light and time of day, this fabric appears how?

2. Irwin intends that viewers will experience what?

3. He uses vast lighting to feature a project in Berkeley and is disappointed when?

4. Why does Irwin not make art in the Mojave?

5. Art students where were particularly pleased to at last have exposure to modernism and minimalism from no less than one of art's masters?

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