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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The three men discover they all have an interest in what?
(a) Man's sense of his own environment and a curiosity to learn how two radically different disciplines can interact within that environment.
(b) Art and science.
(c) Inventions and discoveries.
(d) The elements of art and design.

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

4. Why does Irwin not make art in the Mojave?
(a) He does not know what to make.
(b) He has no supplies to make art.
(c) He has no interest in art.
(d) He does not want to destroy the beauty of the area.

5. Does Robert struggle with the concepts?
(a) Yes, and he makes very little progress.
(b) No.
(c) Yes, and he has made no progress.
(d) Yes, but he makes progress.

6. At a 1971 display at UCLA's museum, Irwin redoes a utility stairway with what?
(a) New lighting and other minor adjustments.
(b) A new color palette.
(c) New stairs.
(d) A new railing.

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

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

9. This concept is supported by what?
(a) A nearby display of aerial shots of New York City.
(b) A nearby display of aerial shots of the desert.
(c) A nearby display of small, playful trinkets.
(d) A nearby display of small, simply-made items.

10. What appeals to Irwin regarding these thinkers?
(a) The commitment made by them and the scale of their ambitions.
(b) The inroads made by them in this field.
(c) The amount of education they have all received.
(d) Their level of intelligence and understanding.

11. Irwin wants to make art of what?
(a) The viewer.
(b) The walls.
(c) The peripheral, the transitory.
(d) The air.

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

13. While much thought goes into his writing, it illustrates that his strength in communication lies where?
(a) In his ability to listen.
(b) In the spoken word.
(c) In his art.
(d) In the written word.

14. Irwin's display at the Whitney Retrospective consists of what?
(a) A dark stairwell.
(b) A room with a large peculiar window through which natural light streams.
(c) A storage closet filled with cleaning supplies.
(d) A room with a large blank wall.

15. In general, Irwin's post-Whitney works are substantially ______________________ than his pre-Whitney projects.
(a) Smaller-scale, less expensive and more complex.
(b) Larger-scale, more expensive and more complex.
(c) Smaller-scale, less expensive and simpler.
(d) Larger-scale, more expensive and less complex.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the mid and late sixties, Irwin supplements his meager art income with earnings from his stints as a teacher. However, his main source of income during this period is from what?

2. Irwin's open-ended offer with an unknown cost was _________________ many curators.

3. After gaining understanding of the basics, Irwin does what?

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

5. Now, with no such material objects in his life, Irwin has to do what?

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