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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To enhance the introspection of their processes, some of the Ferus artists become practitioners of what?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Zen and other Asian philosophies.
(c) Zen Buddhism.
(d) Palm reading.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To Irwin and his young male friends, what is the most important thing in life?

2. Irwin is called back to active duty in the Army during what?

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

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

5. Irwin's ultimate goal is to create a work that is unified and consistent in what?

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