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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How much of an effect do the repercussions from World War II have upon Irwin and his buddies?
(a) Very little.
(b) Quite large.
(c) None.
(d) Extremely large.

6. That Irwin's childhood recollections reside mainly as _____________________ is a clue that his strong connection to the visual was present very early in life.
(a) Perfect images versus words or conversations.
(b) Photographs he has taken.
(c) Drawings he has made.
(d) Words or conversations versus perfect images.

7. Robert's mother apparently provided Robert with an ethical foundation and his father indoctrinated him with what?
(a) An interest in cars.
(b) A lazy attitude.
(c) An easy-going approach to life.
(d) A desire to work hard.

8. Irwin's mother confirms that her son does not like to think of what?
(a) Others.
(b) Himself.
(c) School.
(d) Unpleasant things.

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

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

11. Another critic, William Wilson of the LA Times, reported that Irwin's "paintings _____________."
(a) Blush.
(b) Dance.
(c) Sing.
(d) Laugh.

12. 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) Being a paratrooper.
(c) Studying music.
(d) Detailing his cars.

13. Does Robert claim any discomfiture in his youth?
(a) Yes, very little.
(b) Yes, a great deal.
(c) Yes, some.
(d) No.

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

15. Irwin is called back to active duty in the Army during what?
(a) The Gulf War.
(b) The Korean War.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) The Cold War.

Short Answer Questions

1. After leaving art school, Irwin spends many months and years in Europe over the course of the next ______ years.

2. What is the undisputed capital of art in America?

3. After graduating from high school, Robert's buddies convince him to join them in doing what?

4. What is L.A.'s funky, avant-garde community of artists?

5. Both parents found Robert a ______ to raise.

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