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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irwin ponders the possibility that the Whitney display may be what?
(a) The beginning of a new series of work.
(b) His last foray into art.
(c) The end of an era.
(d) His last days in the U.S.

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

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

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

5. What is one major difference between scientist and artist?
(a) A scientist will keep a record of his failures and successes while an artist just paints over his mistakes until he reaches the desired effect.
(b) A scientist is not as creative as an artist.
(c) A scientist is much more analytical than an artist.
(d) A scientist is required to attend college while an artist is not.

6. 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 Midwest.
(b) In the South.
(c) In the Southwest.
(d) In the Pacific Northwest.

7. The room implicitly represents what?
(a) Happiness.
(b) The Mojave Desert.
(c) A journey to a new beginning.
(d) Simplicity.

8. Robert's installations were made based on what?
(a) Locale.
(b) Funding.
(c) Supplies.
(d) Time.

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

10. 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 immanence."
(d) "The dialogue of collaboration."

11. He uses vast lighting to feature a project in Berkeley and is disappointed when?
(a) The color itself receives more attention than the other elements.
(b) The lighting itself receives more attention than the space.
(c) The space itself receives more attention than the lighting.
(d) The lighting itself receives more attention than the color.

12. Irwin is intrigued by the concept of becoming ________________ which held the dual challenge of becoming responsible.
(a) Retrievable.
(b) Reliable.
(c) Reasonable.
(d) Reversible.

13. Are the challenges he poses often too large and too ambitious to reasonably expect resolution?
(a) Yes.
(b) Rarely.
(c) Not usually.
(d) No.

14. How do critics and viewers find the disc displays?
(a) Ravishingly beautiful.
(b) Looming and menacing.
(c) Boring and devoid of energy.
(d) Strange and unusual.

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

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. What is the flaw with the discs?

3. When Irwin is told that Sartre dropped everything to learn about this philosophy, what did Irwin do?

4. Irwin has always asked legitimate questions about what?

5. Due to changing light and time of day, this fabric appears how?

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