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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Due to his school's proximity to what, Irwin becomes interested in gambling?
(a) The Hollywood Casino.
(b) The Hollywood Park Race Track.
(c) Casino Knights.
(d) Commerce Casino.

2. 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.
(a) Commercial.
(b) Traditional.
(c) Professional.
(d) Good.

3. Robert's dissatisfaction with Jepson then leads him to the Chouinard Art Institute, where he focuses on what?
(a) Dreamy watercolors.
(b) Ceramic sculpture.
(c) Stone carvings.
(d) Abstract oil paintings.

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

5. A second way Irwin deals with imperfect edges is to do what to the canvas?
(a) Make the canvas concave at the center.
(b) Cut the canvas in a circular form.
(c) Extend the canvas completely from one wall to another.
(d) Balloon it out a few inches at the center.

6. It is then that Robert realizes how unhappy he is with what?
(a) Being an artist.
(b) His work.
(c) His life.
(d) Himself.

7. He assesses every stroke and analyzes each part against the whole. In the end Irwin wants his work to appear how?
(a) Meticulous.
(b) Spontaneous.
(c) Very well-planned.
(d) Organized.

8. After staring at his line paintings for hours and days and weeks, what eventually sets in?
(a) Boredom.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Depression.
(d) Anger.

9. There was only one commonality between father and son and that was what?
(a) Love of music.
(b) Love of work.
(c) Love of art.
(d) Love of sports.

10. From what competitions does Irwin average $100 per week in prize money?
(a) Singing competitions.
(b) Dancing competitions.
(c) Rock band competitions.
(d) Piano competitions.

11. Both parents found Robert a ______ to raise.
(a) Joy.
(b) Nuisance.
(c) Simple child.
(d) Problem.

12. It was in whose honor that Irwin wrote the unproduced screenplay The Green and the White?
(a) Joan Tewkesbury.
(b) Joan Templeman.
(c) Joan Tisch.
(d) Joan Tipograph.

13. To Irwin, a painting's gestural integrity is unyieldingly connected to what?
(a) Its meaning.
(b) Its beauty.
(c) Its symmetry.
(d) Its emotional power.

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

15. By painstakingly creating red then ___________ dots, all closely aligned, on a ultra-white surface, Irwin is able to create energy.
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) Orange.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Robert wind up in Europe?

2. Irwin's ultimate goal is to create a work that is unified and consistent in what?

3. Another critic, William Wilson of the LA Times, reported that Irwin's "paintings _____________."

4. What engendered the solitary life that Irwin came to experience is what?

5. Irwin is called back to active duty in the Army during what?

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