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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14 and 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Upon his return, he immediately enrolls in the Otis Art Institute--claiming he knew he would be an artist even before when?
(a) College.
(b) The military.
(c) He started school.
(d) High school.

3. How do young artists view Irwin?
(a) They view him as just another contemporary artist.
(b) They view him as a celebrity.
(c) They look up to him as a theorist and ideological mentor.
(d) They see him as an artist to mimic.

4. Irwin takes many day hikes into the flat terrain and stays where at night?
(a) Under the stars.
(b) In seedy motels.
(c) Under a cactus.
(d) In wolves' dens.

5. 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 dark tan.
(d) His easy sense of well-being.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although there was an innate pride in his son's modern art, Overton____________ it less than his wife.

2. A gallery displaying some of Irwin's work includes in his catalog commentary that, "The art is what has happened to __________" (p. 92).

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

4. Another critic, William Wilson of the LA Times, reported that Irwin's "paintings _____________."

5. The entrepreneur not only admires Irwin's art but also what?

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