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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By age _____________, Robert returns to Los Angeles.
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Twenty.

2. Irwin's mother confirms that her son does not like to think of what?
(a) School.
(b) Himself.
(c) Unpleasant things.
(d) Others.

3. As an art student, Robert is both _________________.
(a) Confused and worried.
(b) Arrogant and cocky.
(c) Blessed and cursed.
(d) Talented and challenged.

4. 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) Good.
(b) Professional.
(c) Traditional.
(d) Commercial.

5. Southern Californians can have instantaneous and intimate conversations with whom?
(a) Total strangers.
(b) Friends.
(c) Acquaintances.
(d) Enemies.

Short Answer Questions

1. There was only one commonality between father and son and that was what?

2. He assesses every stroke and analyzes each part against the whole. In the end Irwin wants his work to appear how?

3. Through his ongoing process, Irwin ultimately concludes that __________________ is the best possible element to establish gestural integrity and one with the least amount of possibility for literal association.

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

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

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