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

Lawrence Weschler
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 142 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

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

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 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At Ferus, Robert feels the need to do what?
(a) Leave the art world.
(b) Catch up.
(c) Make friends.
(d) Hide.

2. Robert loves school only for what?
(a) Art class.
(b) Causing trouble.
(c) Music class.
(d) Its social opportunities.

3. Irwin's goal is to create art that leaves the observer how?
(a) Content.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Confused.
(d) In a meditative state.

4. Both parents found Robert a ______ to raise.
(a) Problem.
(b) Joy.
(c) Nuisance.
(d) Simple child.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To the entrepreneur, Irwin is exceptional and thus was able to do what?

2. That Irwin's childhood recollections reside mainly as _____________________ is a clue that his strong connection to the visual was present very early in life.

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

4. _________________ is part of Irwin's process in the creation of his abstracts.

5. What seems to stand out as having the most war-time relevancy to Robert's young life?

(see the answer key)

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