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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 through 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Later during his disc period, Irwin is able to work with plastic discs, which provide what?
(a) A safer work environment.
(b) The added element of translucence.
(c) Ease of transport.
(d) Weightlessness.

3. Irwin wants to make art of what?
(a) The peripheral, the transitory.
(b) The air.
(c) The walls.
(d) The viewer.

4. His mother, like most other mothers, loved Robert's childhood drawings, but did the family focus on art or visit museums?
(a) Yes, frequently.
(b) Yes, sometimes.
(c) Yes, rarely.
(d) No.

5. Leider felt that Irwin created the painting to be seen how?
(a) As a magnificent work of art.
(b) As a mentally-ill person might see life.
(c) In a way that allows all viewers to have their own interpretation.
(d) As he designed it to be seen or to not be seen at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. A gallery displaying some of Irwin's work includes in his catalog commentary that, "The art is what has happened to __________" (p. 92).

2. Robert was a ______________ child who could perceive danger and cope with it.

3. Irwin's mother confirms that her son does not like to think of what?

4. To Irwin, a painting's gestural integrity is unyieldingly connected to what?

5. Irwin leaves others to interpret while he contemplates what?

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