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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After leaving art school, Irwin spends many months and years in Europe over the course of the next ______ years.
(a) Five.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Fifteen.

3. 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?
(a) Girls.
(b) Cars.
(c) Music.
(d) School.

4. Robert's dissatisfaction with Jepson then leads him to the Chouinard Art Institute, where he focuses on what?
(a) Abstract oil paintings.
(b) Ceramic sculpture.
(c) Dreamy watercolors.
(d) Stone carvings.

5. The genesis of Irwin's artistry is _____________.
(a) Obvious.
(b) Unusual.
(c) Vague.
(d) Odd.

Short Answer Questions

1. He cut short his time in Europe by doing what?

2. Irwin's mother is upset and tries to convince him that bad things will come his way if he does what?

3. Irwin's mother confirms that her son does not like to think of what?

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.

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

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