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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 1970, has Robert answered many of his questions?
(a) Probably not.
(b) Yes.
(c) Probably.
(d) No.

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

3. What is the flaw with the discs?
(a) They are too heavy.
(b) They are not perfect.
(c) The viewers are still required to "look at something."
(d) They take up space.

4. Robert installs a project in a museum to make what case?
(a) That museums are worthwhile.
(b) That the museum is irrelevant.
(c) That the museum should accept him.
(d) That his art can be displayed anywhere.

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. Irwin takes many day hikes into the flat terrain and stays where at night?
(a) In seedy motels.
(b) In wolves' dens.
(c) Under a cactus.
(d) Under the stars.

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

8. Irwin invites a young artist, James Turrell, to join him in the project. Irwin and Turrell wind up partnered on a project with Dr. Ed Wortz of Garrett Aerospace Corporation. Irwin admires Wortz's ability to do what?
(a) Handle whatever challenge he encounters with ease and without prejudice.
(b) Challenge him as both an artist and a scientist.
(c) Ask unanswerable questions.
(d) Solve any equation.

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

10. What is the philosophy of human experience stemming in large part from the work of Edmund Husserl and his followers, with Jean Paul Sartre?
(a) Perspectivism.
(b) Panentheism.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Pseudophilosophy

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

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

13. To Irwin it is a way of portraying perception as what?
(a) Only from his view.
(b) Secondary to light and shadow.
(c) What one must believe.
(d) The essential subject of art.

14. Irwin focuses on a completely white room save for what on all the walls?
(a) Pictures of himself.
(b) A stark black baseboard.
(c) A red streak through the middle.
(d) Dots.

15. Irwin feels so self-indulgent in his own work that ___________________ as a means in which he can serve society as a whole.
(a) He only talks about art.
(b) He only teaches.
(c) He gives his art away to the poor.
(d) He offers his services cost free.

Short Answer Questions

1. At a 1971 display at UCLA's museum, Irwin redoes a utility stairway with what?

2. It is ____________________ to describe Irwin's work after 1970.

3. Descartes argued that the fundamental moment when everything is stripped away occurred where?

4. UCLA invites Irwin in for what?

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

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