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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 Park Race Track.
(b) Casino Knights.
(c) The Hollywood Casino.
(d) Commerce Casino.

2. 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.

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

4. To bring focus to the emotional element of his work, Irwin creates a series of ____________ paintings.
(a) Large.
(b) Small.
(c) Colorful.
(d) Odd.

5. Although there was an innate pride in his son's modern art, Overton____________ it less than his wife.
(a) Appreciated.
(b) Liked.
(c) Understood.
(d) Wanted to see.

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

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

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

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

10. Irwin displays his line drawings at Ferus and at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York. He attempts to adjust what to duplicate the conditions of his studio?
(a) The lighting in the room.
(b) The light and room color and configuration.
(c) The sounds in the room.
(d) The room temperature.

11. Irwin's years of striving for perfection and precision in what is now echoed in his works as an artist?
(a) Learning to dance.
(b) Studying music.
(c) Being a paratrooper.
(d) Detailing his cars.

12. Robert loves school only for what?
(a) Art class.
(b) Its social opportunities.
(c) Causing trouble.
(d) Music class.

13. To enhance the introspection of their processes, some of the Ferus artists become practitioners of what?
(a) Zen and other Asian philosophies.
(b) Palm reading.
(c) Zen Buddhism.
(d) Christianity.

14. The entrepreneur not only admires Irwin's art but also what?
(a) His determination and ambition to succeed.
(b) His religious background.
(c) His love of New York.
(d) His easy-going personality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Although Goldie defends her son's work and is proud of it, she admits she doesn't always ________________ it.

2. Irwin's mother confirms that her son does not like to think of what?

3. As an art student, Robert is both _________________.

4. It is then that Robert realizes how unhappy he is with what?

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

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