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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Due to his school's proximity to what, Irwin becomes interested in gambling?
(a) The Hollywood Casino.
(b) Casino Knights.
(c) The Hollywood Park Race Track.
(d) Commerce Casino.

4. What is L.A.'s funky, avant-garde community of artists?
(a) The Ferus Gallery.
(b) The Felix Gallery.
(c) The Furmann Gallery.
(d) The Ferris Gallery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Irwin's family is part of what social class?

2. His mother, like most other mothers, loved Robert's childhood drawings, but did the family focus on art or visit museums?

3. Does Robert claim any discomfiture in his youth?

4. Although Goldie defends her son's work and is proud of it, she admits she doesn't always ________________ it.

5. Goldie, Robert's mother, was the thinker and ___________ of the family.

(see the answer key)

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