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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one major difference between scientist and artist?
(a) A scientist is much more analytical than an artist.
(b) A scientist is not as creative as an artist.
(c) 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.
(d) A scientist is required to attend college while an artist is not.

2. Due to changing light and time of day, this fabric appears how?
(a) Alternately transparent and opaque.
(b) Shiny and dull.
(c) Textured and smooth.
(d) Dark and light.

3. Turrell eventually drops out of the project with no explanation. Perhaps he had fallen under what?
(a) The Anxiety of Experimentation.
(b) The Anxiety of Influence.
(c) The Anxiety of Art.
(d) The Anxiety of Science.

4. 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 immanence."
(b) "The dialogue of the intelligent."
(c) "The dialogue of collaboration."
(d) "The dialogue of the insane."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. It is in ___________________ that the two disciplines, art and science, have grown separately.
(a) Ancient times.
(b) Prehistoric times.
(c) Lithographic times.
(d) Modern times.

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

14. I think therefore _____________.
(a) I am.
(b) I matter.
(c) I believe.
(d) I have intelligence.

15. 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) All day.
(c) An hour.
(d) A week.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irwin, through his journey of self-discovery, has learned to do what?

2. Irwin is badgered by the seeming arbitrariness of the __________ created in the dots painting in their confinement to the canvas.

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

4. This concept is supported by what?

5. UCLA invites Irwin in for what?

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