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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Robert's mother apparently provided Robert with an ethical foundation and his father indoctrinated him with what?
(a) An easy-going approach to life.
(b) An interest in cars.
(c) A lazy attitude.
(d) A desire to work hard.

2. Although the level of artistry is superb in Irwin's eyes, this gallery is not making many sales--which they need in order to stay in business. Who comes to the rescue and greatly improves the fiscal operation of the gallery?
(a) Irving Berlin.
(b) Ira Bernstein.
(c) Irving Blum.
(d) Irwin Bloomingdale.

3. Irwin's views on feminism and race relations were always what?
(a) Conservative.
(b) Ahead of his times.
(c) Strange.
(d) Prejudice.

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

5. As a young teen who loves music, Irwin teaches himself to do what?
(a) Dance.
(b) Sing.
(c) Play the guitar.
(d) Play the piano.

Short Answer Questions

1. Overton Irwin, Robert's father, ran a successful ____________________ business until he lost everything in the Depression.

2. The genesis of Irwin's artistry is _____________.

3. To what does Robert partially attribute to growing up here in the 1940s?

4. Irwin feels he got his drive to accomplish from whom?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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