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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At a 1971 display at UCLA's museum, Irwin redoes a utility stairway with what?
(a) New lighting and other minor adjustments.
(b) A new railing.
(c) A new color palette.
(d) New stairs.

2. During this time period, Irwin works on __________ projects.
(a) Disc.
(b) Dot.
(c) Scrim.
(d) Line.

3. What Irwin strives to do is create not a color field, but rather what?
(a) A field of color energy.
(b) A minute spot of color.
(c) A color palette.
(d) A lack of color field.

4. It is during his association with this gallery that Irwin evolves from a figurative painter to what?
(a) A cubist.
(b) An abstract impressionist.
(c) A minimalist.
(d) An abstract expressionist.

5. Questions that arise within Irwin himself about his line drawings leads him to advance to what?
(a) Cubes.
(b) Dots.
(c) Squares.
(d) Rectangles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Irwin paint his dots in precise dimensions that form the allusion of a perfect square within the canvas--drawing attention away from the edges?

2. In viewing Irwin's dots, what happened to distinguished art critic Philip Leider?

3. By painstakingly creating red then ___________ dots, all closely aligned, on a ultra-white surface, Irwin is able to create energy.

4. To the entrepreneur, Irwin is exceptional and thus was able to do what?

5. Irwin was not one of the original artists, but is he chosen to be in the new group?

(see the answer key)

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