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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Robert's installations were made based on what?
(a) Funding.
(b) Supplies.
(c) Locale.
(d) Time.

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

5. There is a __________ that cuts the room into two spaces.
(a) Scrim.
(b) Velvet curtain.
(c) Shower curtain.
(d) Plastic curtain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Do many viewers "get it?"

2. The three men discover they all have an interest in what?

3. Irwin experiments with acrylic columns placed in the room and matching the walls, causing the illusion that they dissolve into the room. Unfortunately, some viewers conclude what?

4. In a 1976 display in Venice, he merely outlines with string a spot of tree-filtered light on the ground. What do some think?

5. In general, Irwin's post-Whitney works are substantially ______________________ than his pre-Whitney projects.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of Irwin's views regarding this philosophy?

2. What happens when enthusiasm for Irwin grows?

3. From where do non-art invitations come?

4. Describe Irwin's post-Whitney works and beliefs.

5. What leads Irwin to painting discs?

6. What is Irwin doing three years after the Whitney opening? Why?

7. What do viewers think of this display?

8. Describe Irwin's scrim projects.

9. How does the desert become important to Irwin?

10. Describe Irwin's installation in the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art in 1975.

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