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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Southern Californians can have instantaneous and intimate conversations with whom?
(a) Acquaintances.
(b) Enemies.
(c) Total strangers.
(d) Friends.

3. What seems to stand out as having the most war-time relevancy to Robert's young life?
(a) His friend's father being taken as a prisoner in Nazi Germany.
(b) The siphoning of neighbor's gas during rationing.
(c) Planting a garden in the back yard.
(d) His brother being killed in the war.

4. Blum regrets that some of the gallery's artists fail to move _______________ where they could be successful.
(a) To Chicago.
(b) To New York.
(c) To Paris.
(d) To Los Angeles.

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

6. _________________ is part of Irwin's process in the creation of his abstracts.
(a) An intense internal dialog.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Listening to music.
(d) Studying the artists around him.

7. Goldie, Robert's mother, was the thinker and ___________ of the family.
(a) Organizer.
(b) Doer.
(c) Worrier.
(d) Leader.

8. As an art student, Robert is both _________________.
(a) Arrogant and cocky.
(b) Confused and worried.
(c) Talented and challenged.
(d) Blessed and cursed.

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

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

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

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

13. Although Irwin is not a good student, he is welcome where?
(a) In many social cliques.
(b) In the principal's office.
(c) In the autobody class.
(d) In art class.

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

15. One of the first steps he takes is what?
(a) To look for funding.
(b) To start a school at the gallery.
(c) To bring in new artists.
(d) To pare down the number of artists at Ferus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Robert Irwin grow up?

2. In viewing Irwin's dots, what happened to distinguished art critic Philip Leider?

3. It was in whose honor that Irwin wrote the unproduced screenplay The Green and the White?

4. Irwin grows discontented with his show at ____________ in Los Angeles.

5. That Irwin's childhood recollections reside mainly as _____________________ is a clue that his strong connection to the visual was present very early in life.

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