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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. Irwin is aware that he possesses the very positive characteristic of what?
(a) Selflessness.
(b) Persistence.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Self-esteem.

2. How does Robert react when some of his work is actually destroyed by viewers at his displays?
(a) He becomes very angry.
(b) He does not mourn the loss.
(c) He falls into a depression.
(d) He sues.

3. Irwin takes his lead from master artist _____________, who in creating a multitude of paintings always uses the same subjects--a set of bottles.
(a) Morandi.
(b) Mandalay.
(c) Marisol.
(d) Moriarty.

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

5. Irwin's ultimate goal is to create a work that is unified and consistent in what?
(a) Emphasis and unity.
(b) Form and balance.
(c) Color and physical terms.
(d) Color and value.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Irwin invites a young artist, James Turrell, to join him in the project. Irwin and Turrell wind up partnered on a project with Dr. Ed Wortz of Garrett Aerospace Corporation. Irwin admires Wortz's ability to do what?

3. It is during his association with this gallery that Irwin evolves from a figurative painter to what?

4. Irwin was not one of the original artists, but is he chosen to be in the new group?

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

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