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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. He cut short his time in Europe by doing what?
(a) Exchanging one year of active duty for three years in the army reserve.
(b) Self inflicting a wound.
(c) Quitting his job and returning home.
(d) Getting a transfer from the European branch of a company to the California branch.

4. To the entrepreneur, Irwin is exceptional and thus was able to do what?
(a) Be successful in Europe.
(b) Flourish in LA.
(c) Flourish in LA and indeed anywhere.
(d) Move to New York and be successful.

5. From what does Irwin begin to withdraw?
(a) The gallery.
(b) Himself.
(c) The world.
(d) The art world.

6. By the late '60s he creates rooms devoid of what?
(a) Color.
(b) Objects.
(c) Texture.
(d) Light.

7. His mother, like most other mothers, loved Robert's childhood drawings, but did the family focus on art or visit museums?
(a) Yes, rarely.
(b) Yes, frequently.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, sometimes.

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

9. Irwin grows discontented with his show at ____________ in Los Angeles.
(a) The Felix Landau Gallery.
(b) Los Angeles Center for Digital Art.
(c) Bert Green Fine Art Gallery.
(d) Couturier Gallery.

10. Irwin and his brother attend what church with their mother?
(a) The Baptist Church.
(b) The Mormon Church.
(c) The Catholic Church.
(d) The Lutheran Church.

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

12. Although the level of artistry is superb in Irwin's eyes, this gallery is not making many sales--which they need in order to stay in business. Who comes to the rescue and greatly improves the fiscal operation of the gallery?
(a) Irving Berlin.
(b) Ira Bernstein.
(c) Irwin Bloomingdale.
(d) Irving Blum.

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

14. Leider felt that Irwin created the painting to be seen how?
(a) As a mentally-ill person might see life.
(b) As he designed it to be seen or to not be seen at all.
(c) In a way that allows all viewers to have their own interpretation.
(d) As a magnificent work of art.

15. It is during his association with this gallery that Irwin evolves from a figurative painter to what?
(a) An abstract expressionist.
(b) An abstract impressionist.
(c) A minimalist.
(d) A cubist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irwin asks himself, "How does one paint a painting without ___________?" (p. 87).

2. Irwin takes his lead from master artist _____________, who in creating a multitude of paintings always uses the same subjects--a set of bottles.

3. A second way Irwin deals with imperfect edges is to do what to the canvas?

4. Questions that arise within Irwin himself about his line drawings leads him to advance to what?

5. Robert winds up with what group?

(see the answer keys)

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