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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 insane."
(c) "The dialogue of collaboration."
(d) "The dialogue of the intelligent."

4. 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 offers his services cost free.
(d) He gives his art away to the poor.

5. In 1970, the young curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York invites the controversial Robert Irwin to do what?
(a) Join their board of directors.
(b) Become a member of their teaching staff.
(c) Perform a transformation of a small, abandoned room in the Museum.
(d) Display his work in the main gallery.

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

7. Now, with no such material objects in his life, Irwin has to do what?
(a) Give up on his art career.
(b) Create art out of nothing.
(c) Find new materials.
(d) Learn a new way of thinking.

8. In 1975, he participates in ______________________ show.
(a) The San Francisco MoMA.
(b) The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art.
(c) The LACMA.
(d) The MoMA.

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

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

11. What do Irwin's new works involve?
(a) Massive, biodegradable on-site installations.
(b) Massive, permanent on-site installations.
(c) Small, intimate, permanent installations.
(d) Small, intimate, biodegradable installations.

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Irwin experiments with acrylic columns placed in the room and matching the walls, causing the illusion that they dissolve into the room. Unfortunately, some viewers conclude what?

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

3. I think therefore _____________.

4. Irwin wants to make art of what?

5. In a 1976 display in Venice, he merely outlines with string a spot of tree-filtered light on the ground. What do some think?

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