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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Irwin strives to do is create not a color field, but rather what?
(a) A field of color energy.
(b) A lack of color field.
(c) A minute spot of color.
(d) A color palette.

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

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

4. The time spent during this period causes what to end?
(a) His art career.
(b) His interest in making art.
(c) Many friendships.
(d) His marriage.

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

6. What engendered the solitary life that Irwin came to experience is what?
(a) Noticeable in his mother.
(b) An unknown.
(c) Seen in his father's personality.
(d) Due to his family's lack of understanding.

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

8. 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) Traditional.
(b) Commercial.
(c) Professional.
(d) Good.

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

10. Irwin's ultimate goal is to create a work that is unified and consistent in what?
(a) Color and physical terms.
(b) Color and value.
(c) Emphasis and unity.
(d) Form and balance.

11. 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.

12. 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.

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

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

15. 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?
(a) Kuhn.
(b) Koestler.
(c) Katz.
(d) Kierkegaard's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Robert wind up in Europe?

2. Irwin and his brother attend what church with their mother?

3. With what does Ferus present Irwin?

4. Robert loves school only for what?

5. Through his ongoing process, Irwin ultimately concludes that __________________ is the best possible element to establish gestural integrity and one with the least amount of possibility for literal association.

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