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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where is this fabric hung?
(a) The ceiling.
(b) The art work.
(c) The window.
(d) The doorway.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. I think therefore _____________.

2. Irwin ponders the possibility that the Whitney display may be what?

3. Irwin feels that the most important result of his association with Dr. Wortz is what?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Irwin doing three years after the Whitney opening? Why?

2. How does the desert become important to Irwin?

3. What does Irwin ponder after the Whitney display? Why?

4. What questions does Irwin ask himself regarding these discs? How does he answer this question?

5. Describe Irwin's installations after 1970.

6. What are some of Irwin's views regarding this philosophy?

7. Describe Irwin's post-Whitney works and beliefs.

8. With what do the men experiment? Describe these experiments.

9. What do viewers think of this display?

10. What does Maurice Tuchman organize?

(see the answer keys)

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