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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irwin strives to turn himself over to what?
(a) The canvas.
(b) God.
(c) Art.
(d) Fate.

2. Robert's focus now becomes what?
(a) The lighting and the walls of the room.
(b) The floor and ceiling.
(c) The viewer.
(d) The windows.

3. To what does Robert partially attribute to growing up here in the 1940s?
(a) His interest in the arts.
(b) His dark tan.
(c) His love of the ocean.
(d) His easy sense of well-being.

4. Although Goldie defends her son's work and is proud of it, she admits she doesn't always ________________ it.
(a) Understand.
(b) Appreciate.
(c) Like.
(d) Want to see.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. I think therefore _____________.

3. In Goldie's latter years, after Irwin becomes a successful artist, she has a difficult time explaining to her friends that her son is an artist, but not a ___________ artist.

4. Irwin feels so self-indulgent in his own work that ___________________ as a means in which he can serve society as a whole.

5. Does Robert claim any discomfiture in his youth?

(see the answer key)

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