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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irwin takes many day hikes into the flat terrain and stays where at night?
(a) In wolves' dens.
(b) Under a cactus.
(c) Under the stars.
(d) In seedy motels.

2. How do critics and viewers find the disc displays?
(a) Strange and unusual.
(b) Boring and devoid of energy.
(c) Looming and menacing.
(d) Ravishingly beautiful.

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

4. How does the Mojave seem to Irwin?
(a) Scary.
(b) Magical.
(c) Odd.
(d) Hot.

5. Turrell eventually drops out of the project with no explanation. Perhaps he had fallen under what?
(a) The Anxiety of Influence.
(b) The Anxiety of Science.
(c) The Anxiety of Experimentation.
(d) The Anxiety of Art.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To Irwin it is a way of portraying perception as what?

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

4. By the late '60s he creates rooms devoid of what?

5. Although Irwin probably was not familiar with whose philosophy of "The Rotation Method," the philosopher's conclusion that fertility is created through self-limitation shines through in his work?

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