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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon his return, he immediately enrolls in the Otis Art Institute--claiming he knew he would be an artist even before when?
(a) He started school.
(b) The military.
(c) College.
(d) High school.

2. Both parents found Robert a ______ to raise.
(a) Joy.
(b) Problem.
(c) Nuisance.
(d) Simple child.

3. With what does Ferus present Irwin?
(a) His first experience in a gallery setting.
(b) His first experience with contemporaries whose work is superior to his own.
(c) His first experience with contemporaries with more art training.
(d) His first experience with contemporaries whose work is inferior to his own.

4. Goldie, Robert's mother, was the thinker and ___________ of the family.
(a) Doer.
(b) Leader.
(c) Organizer.
(d) Worrier.

5. Upon his return to LA, Irwin enrolls in the Jepson Art institute, which is staffed by art luminaries of the day, including Rico Lebrun, Howard Warshaw and who?
(a) Marisol Escobar.
(b) Herbert Jepson.
(c) Vincent Price.
(d) William Brice.

Short Answer Questions

1. To enhance the introspection of their processes, some of the Ferus artists become practitioners of what?

2. Turrell eventually drops out of the project with no explanation. Perhaps he had fallen under what?

3. His dissatisfaction compels him to begin an association with what Gallery, which fostered the coming of age of the modernist artist in LA in the sixties?

4. To bring focus to the emotional element of his work, Irwin creates a series of ____________ paintings.

5. Irwin's discomfort with paintings that encompass the edges of the canvas leads him to move on to painting what?

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