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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14 and 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _________________ is part of Irwin's process in the creation of his abstracts.
(a) Listening to music.
(b) Studying the artists around him.
(c) Dancing.
(d) An intense internal dialog.

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

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

4. Irwin's years of striving for perfection and precision in what is now echoed in his works as an artist?
(a) Being a paratrooper.
(b) Detailing his cars.
(c) Learning to dance.
(d) Studying music.

5. The three men discover they all have an interest in what?
(a) The elements of art and design.
(b) Man's sense of his own environment and a curiosity to learn how two radically different disciplines can interact within that environment.
(c) Inventions and discoveries.
(d) Art and science.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the first steps he takes is what?

2. After staring at his line paintings for hours and days and weeks, what eventually sets in?

3. It is in ___________________ that the two disciplines, art and science, have grown separately.

4. Irwin takes a giant leap between 1962 and ___________ in the production of his ten late line paintings.

5. Not knowing what direction his life is taking, Irwin does what?

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