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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irwin's family is part of what social class?
(a) Lower class.
(b) Working middle class.
(c) Upper middle class.
(d) Upper class.

2. Goldie, Robert's mother, was the thinker and ___________ of the family.
(a) Organizer.
(b) Worrier.
(c) Leader.
(d) Doer.

3. This period chronicles Irwin's transformation from abstract impressionist to ________________ artisan.
(a) Op artist.
(b) Abstract expressionist.
(c) Impressionist.
(d) Minimalist.

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

5. His dissatisfaction compels him to begin an association with what Gallery, which fostered the coming of age of the modernist artist in LA in the sixties?
(a) The Ferus Gallery.
(b) DF2 Gallery.
(c) Papillon Gallery.
(d) Subliminal Projects Gallery.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Blum regrets that some of the gallery's artists fail to move _______________ where they could be successful.

3. Irwin's years of striving for perfection and precision in what is now echoed in his works as an artist?

4. Irwin grows discontented with his show at ____________ in Los Angeles.

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

(see the answer key)

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