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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irwin attributes his success at this gallery, at least in part, to what?
(a) His art training.
(b) The relaxed atmosphere of the West Coast.
(c) His natural talent.
(d) The lack of talent in LA.

2. To Irwin and his young male friends, what is the most important thing in life?
(a) Music.
(b) Their cars.
(c) School.
(d) Girls.

3. To what does Robert partially attribute to growing up here in the 1940s?
(a) His dark tan.
(b) His interest in the arts.
(c) His love of the ocean.
(d) His easy sense of well-being.

4. It was in whose honor that Irwin wrote the unproduced screenplay The Green and the White?
(a) Joan Templeman.
(b) Joan Tisch.
(c) Joan Tewkesbury.
(d) Joan Tipograph.

5. In Goldie's latter years, after Irwin becomes a successful artist, she has a difficult time explaining to her friends that her son is an artist, but not a ___________ artist.
(a) Professional.
(b) Good.
(c) Commercial.
(d) Traditional.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although many art critics disagree, Irwin connects his love of what to his later emergence as an artist--especially in the realm of folk art?

2. Robert loves school only for 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. One of the first steps he takes is what?

5. What is L.A.'s funky, avant-garde community of artists?

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