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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 is one major difference between scientist and artist?
(a) A scientist is required to attend college while an artist is not.
(b) A scientist is much more analytical than an artist.
(c) A scientist is not as creative as an artist.
(d) A scientist will keep a record of his failures and successes while an artist just paints over his mistakes until he reaches the desired effect.

2. Where did Robert Irwin grow up?
(a) Southwest Los Angeles.
(b) Southeast Los Angeles.
(c) Northeast Los Angeles.
(d) Northwest Los Angeles.

3. Although many art critics disagree, Irwin connects his love of what to his later emergence as an artist--especially in the realm of folk art?
(a) Music.
(b) School.
(c) Cars.
(d) Girls.

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

5. After leaving art school, Irwin spends many months and years in Europe over the course of the next ______ years.
(a) Ten.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irwin's years of striving for perfection and precision in what is now echoed in his works as an artist?

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

3. The genesis of Irwin's artistry is _____________.

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

5. Irwin's views on feminism and race relations were always what?

(see the answer key)

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