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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. What does Irwin feel will help clear his mind in his journey of discovery?
(a) The business of the city.
(b) The heat of the desert.
(c) The vastness of the ocean.
(d) The barrenness of the desert.

2. By age _____________, Robert returns to Los Angeles.
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Eighteen.

3. Irwin's years of striving for perfection and precision in what is now echoed in his works as an artist?
(a) Studying music.
(b) Being a paratrooper.
(c) Learning to dance.
(d) Detailing his cars.

4. Irwin was not one of the original artists, but is he chosen to be in the new group?
(a) Yes, but not at first.
(b) Yes, but he is later told to leave.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

5. Irwin attributes his success at this gallery, at least in part, to what?
(a) His natural talent.
(b) His art training.
(c) The relaxed atmosphere of the West Coast.
(d) The lack of talent in LA.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Irwin not make art in the Mojave?

2. There was only one commonality between father and son and that was what?

3. Now, with no such material objects in his life, Irwin has to do what?

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

5. Robert's mother apparently provided Robert with an ethical foundation and his father indoctrinated him with what?

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