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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the undisputed capital of art in America?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Miami.
(d) New York.

2. Irwin focuses self-critique on the ______________ of the work.
(a) Movement.
(b) Balance.
(c) Form.
(d) Unity.

3. By age _____________, Robert returns to Los Angeles.
(a) Twenty.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Twenty-one.

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

5. To Irwin and his young male friends, what is the most important thing in life?
(a) Their cars.
(b) Girls.
(c) School.
(d) Music.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the philosophy of human experience stemming in large part from the work of Edmund Husserl and his followers, with Jean Paul Sartre?

2. Irwin leaves others to interpret while he contemplates what?

3. Upon his return to LA, Irwin enrolls in the Jepson Art institute, which is staffed by art luminaries of the day, including Rico Lebrun, Howard Warshaw and who?

4. In a 1976 display in Venice, he merely outlines with string a spot of tree-filtered light on the ground. What do some think?

5. Why does Irwin paint his dots in precise dimensions that form the allusion of a perfect square within the canvas--drawing attention away from the edges?

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