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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 required to attend college while an artist is not.
(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 much more analytical than an artist.

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

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

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

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

6. Irwin feels that the most important result of his association with Dr. Wortz is what?
(a) The discoveries they made as a team.
(b) The lessons they learned.
(c) The art they made together.
(d) Each man radically changed the life of the other forever.

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

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

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

10. Between ___________ and 1970, Irwin's work can be chartered by time and focused progression.
(a) 1950.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1957.

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

12. Descartes argued that the fundamental moment when everything is stripped away occurred where?
(a) In the cognito.
(b) In the cogito.
(c) In the incognito.
(d) In the congo.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1970, the young curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York invites the controversial Robert Irwin to do what?

2. While much thought goes into his writing, it illustrates that his strength in communication lies where?

3. During this time period, Irwin works on __________ projects.

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

5. This concept is supported by what?

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