Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Lawrence Weschler
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Lawrence Weschler
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 142 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Robert wind up in Europe?
(a) He runs out of money in Rome.
(b) He is transferred to the regular Army due to an injury.
(c) He attends college in Paris.
(d) He visits friends.

2. To the entrepreneur, Irwin is exceptional and thus was able to do what?
(a) Be successful in Europe.
(b) Flourish in LA.
(c) Flourish in LA and indeed anywhere.
(d) Move to New York and be successful.

3. Does Robert claim any discomfiture in his youth?
(a) No.
(b) Yes, a great deal.
(c) Yes, some.
(d) Yes, very little.

4. Irwin's views on feminism and race relations were always what?
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Strange.
(d) Ahead of his times.

5. Irwin attributes his success at this gallery, at least in part, to what?
(a) The relaxed atmosphere of the West Coast.
(b) His natural talent.
(c) His art training.
(d) The lack of talent in LA.

Short Answer Questions

1. Robert's mother apparently provided Robert with an ethical foundation and his father indoctrinated him with what?

2. After graduating from high school, Robert's buddies convince him to join them in doing what?

3. As an art student, Robert is both _________________.

4. To what does Robert partially attribute to growing up here in the 1940s?

5. After leaving art school, Irwin spends many months and years in Europe over the course of the next ______ years.

(see the answer key)

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