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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irwin sets about reading everything he can about this philosophy, sometimes spending how much time reading, analyzing, and trying to understand every turn of phrase?
(a) Ten minutes.
(b) An hour.
(c) A week.
(d) All day.

2. Between ___________ and 1970, Irwin's work can be chartered by time and focused progression.
(a) 1960.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1950.

3. What three elements are equally positive?
(a) Wall, window, shadow.
(b) Viewer, window, disc.
(c) Wall, shadow and disc.
(d) Wall, floor, ceiling.

4. The men experiment with ___________________, a device that shuts out all outside distractions, including sound and light.
(a) An anechoic chamber.
(b) An arachnid chamber.
(c) An archival chamber.
(d) An antechamber.

5. Critics do not understand the display, referring to it as what?
(a) Simple.
(b) A stunt or a nihilistic gesture.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) A waste of space.

6. The passion of Irwin's career has been continually fighting what?
(a) The difficult premise that art is a metaphor of the future.
(b) The difficult premise that art is a metaphor of the past.
(c) The difficult premise that art is a metaphor of the world.
(d) The difficult premise that art is a metaphor of the present.

7. Do many viewers "get it?"
(a) No.
(b) Yes, many.
(c) Yes, some.
(d) Yes, but very few.

8. Irwin has always asked legitimate questions about what?
(a) His art.
(b) The world.
(c) The world and art.
(d) Himself.

9. Art students where were particularly pleased to at last have exposure to modernism and minimalism from no less than one of art's masters?
(a) In the Southwest.
(b) In the Midwest.
(c) In the Pacific Northwest.
(d) In the South.

10. Descartes argued that the fundamental moment when everything is stripped away occurred where?
(a) In the congo.
(b) In the cognito.
(c) In the incognito.
(d) In the cogito.

11. Robert's focus now becomes what?
(a) The lighting and the walls of the room.
(b) The floor and ceiling.
(c) The viewer.
(d) The windows.

12. Irwin is badgered by the seeming arbitrariness of the __________ created in the dots painting in their confinement to the canvas.
(a) Life.
(b) Energy.
(c) Color.
(d) Happiness.

13. There is a thin black ________ around the room at eye level.
(a) String of pearls.
(b) String.
(c) Series of circles.
(d) Line.

14. Over the last __________ years, Irwin had connected his thinking process to the art objects he was making.
(a) Ten.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Twenty.

15. In recent works, Irwin has abandoned his principal mode of pursuit. What is this pursuit?
(a) The discipline of random reduction.
(b) The discipline of random deduction.
(c) The discipline of sequential deduction.
(d) The discipline of sequential reduction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irwin feels so self-indulgent in his own work that ___________________ as a means in which he can serve society as a whole.

2. He adds a thick black tape to the floor to form what?

3. In 1975, he participates in ______________________ show.

4. Irwin is intrigued by the concept of becoming ________________ which held the dual challenge of becoming responsible.

5. Robert's installations were made based on what?

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