Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Lawrence Weschler
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Lawrence Weschler
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 142 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Robert wind up in Europe?
(a) He is transferred to the regular Army due to an injury.
(b) He visits friends.
(c) He attends college in Paris.
(d) He runs out of money in Rome.

2. What engendered the solitary life that Irwin came to experience is what?
(a) Noticeable in his mother.
(b) An unknown.
(c) Seen in his father's personality.
(d) Due to his family's lack of understanding.

3. Irwin grows discontented with his show at ____________ in Los Angeles.
(a) Couturier Gallery.
(b) Bert Green Fine Art Gallery.
(c) The Felix Landau Gallery.
(d) Los Angeles Center for Digital Art.

4. From what competitions does Irwin average $100 per week in prize money?
(a) Dancing competitions.
(b) Piano competitions.
(c) Singing competitions.
(d) Rock band competitions.

5. Robert was a ______________ child who could perceive danger and cope with it.
(a) Wild.
(b) Happy.
(c) Strange.
(d) Cautious.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Robert's early days, subjects include what?

2. Who early on takes note of Robert's natural talent?

3. Upon his return to LA, Irwin enrolls in the Jepson Art institute, which is staffed by art luminaries of the day, including Rico Lebrun, Howard Warshaw and who?

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

5. Upon his return, he immediately enrolls in the Otis Art Institute--claiming he knew he would be an artist even before when?

(see the answer key)

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