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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irwin leaves others to interpret while he contemplates what?
(a) Moving back to Europe.
(b) Rebuilding a car.
(c) Ending his career as an artist.
(d) Working on his marriage.

2. Irwin's discomfort with paintings that encompass the edges of the canvas leads him to move on to painting what?
(a) Walls.
(b) Discs.
(c) Ceilings.
(d) Floors.

3. ___________ years after the Whitney opening, Irwin is busy with multiple proposals for projects for cities and universities.
(a) Seven.
(b) Three.
(c) Ten.
(d) Four.

4. During this time period, Irwin works on __________ projects.
(a) Dot.
(b) Scrim.
(c) Line.
(d) Disc.

5. There is a __________ that cuts the room into two spaces.
(a) Plastic curtain.
(b) Velvet curtain.
(c) Scrim.
(d) Shower curtain.

6. 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.

7. Irwin feels that the most important result of his association with Dr. Wortz is what?
(a) Each man radically changed the life of the other forever.
(b) The art they made together.
(c) The lessons they learned.
(d) The discoveries they made as a team.

8. When Irwin is told that Sartre dropped everything to learn about this philosophy, what did Irwin do?
(a) He followed suit.
(b) He returned to painting.
(c) He did the opposite.
(d) He laughed, finding this ridiculous.

9. This is a semi-transparent material used in Holland and other locales for window dressing.
(a) Silk.
(b) Gauze.
(c) Scrim.
(d) Tulle.

10. Irwin, through his journey of self-discovery, has learned to do what?
(a) Deal with presence without the reductiveness.
(b) Deal with presence with the reductiveness.
(c) Deal with presence without the deductiveness.
(d) Deal with presence with the deductiveness.

11. Researchers in science like Wortz and researchers in art like Irwin have more in common with each other than they do with the technicians in their own fields. Irwin dubs this relationship __________________. T
(a) "The dialogue of the insane."
(b) "The dialogue of the intelligent."
(c) "The dialogue of collaboration."
(d) "The dialogue of immanence."

12. Describe his writing.
(a) Flowery and detailed.
(b) Simple and straightforward.
(c) Dry and boring.
(d) Convoluted, mired in itself and rambling.

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

14. This chapter covers Irwin's relationship with what?
(a) Phenomenology.
(b) Perspectivism.
(c) Panentheism.
(d) Pseudophilosophy.

15. From where is this fabric hung?
(a) The ceiling.
(b) The window.
(c) The doorway.
(d) The art work.

Short Answer Questions

1. The passion of Irwin's career has been continually fighting what?

2. What do Irwin's new works involve?

3. Art students where were particularly pleased to at last have exposure to modernism and minimalism from no less than one of art's masters?

4. How does the Mojave seem to Irwin?

5. The three men discover they all have an interest in what?

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