Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin Quiz | Eight 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 | Eight 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 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Irwin's mother is upset and tries to convince him that bad things will come his way if he does what?
(a) Continues to gamble.
(b) Turns his back on the church.
(c) Drops out of school.
(d) Attends another church.

3. Irwin's mother confirms that her son does not like to think of what?
(a) Others.
(b) Unpleasant things.
(c) School.
(d) Himself.

4. Irwin feels he got his drive to accomplish from whom?
(a) His father.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His mother.
(d) His grandmother.

5. That Irwin's childhood recollections reside mainly as _____________________ is a clue that his strong connection to the visual was present very early in life.
(a) Words or conversations versus perfect images.
(b) Drawings he has made.
(c) Photographs he has taken.
(d) Perfect images versus words or conversations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Robert claim any discomfiture in his youth?

2. As a young teen who loves music, Irwin teaches himself to do what?

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

4. To Irwin and his young male friends, what is the most important thing in life?

5. There was only one commonality between father and son and that was what?

(see the answer key)

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