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

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

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 Chapters 14 and 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irwin is called back to active duty in the Army during what?
(a) The Gulf War.
(b) The Cold War.
(c) The Korean War.
(d) The Vietnam War.

2. Irwin sees this as a tool to use toward what?
(a) Overcoming obstacles.
(b) Fame and fortune.
(c) Becoming fearless.
(d) Change and accomplishment.

3. 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) DF2 Gallery.
(b) The Ferus Gallery.
(c) Papillon Gallery.
(d) Subliminal Projects Gallery.

4. To the entrepreneur, Irwin is exceptional and thus was able to do what?
(a) Flourish in LA.
(b) Be successful in Europe.
(c) Flourish in LA and indeed anywhere.
(d) Move to New York and be successful.

5. As an art student, Robert is both _________________.
(a) Talented and challenged.
(b) Arrogant and cocky.
(c) Blessed and cursed.
(d) Confused and worried.

Short Answer Questions

1. It was in whose honor that Irwin wrote the unproduced screenplay The Green and the White?

2. It is in ___________________ that the two disciplines, art and science, have grown separately.

3. How does the Mojave seem to Irwin?

4. Robert winds up with what group?

5. Later during his disc period, Irwin is able to work with plastic discs, which provide what?

(see the answer key)

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