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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. At a 1971 display at UCLA's museum, Irwin redoes a utility stairway with what?
(a) New lighting and other minor adjustments.
(b) A new railing.
(c) New stairs.
(d) A new color palette.

2. 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) The end of an era.
(d) His last foray into art.

3. He uses vast lighting to feature a project in Berkeley and is disappointed when?
(a) The space itself receives more attention than the lighting.
(b) The lighting itself receives more attention than the space.
(c) The color itself receives more attention than the other elements.
(d) The lighting itself receives more attention than the color.

4. How does the Mojave seem to Irwin?
(a) Scary.
(b) Hot.
(c) Odd.
(d) Magical.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Later during his disc period, Irwin is able to work with plastic discs, which provide what?

2. Do many viewers "get it?"

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

4. What is the focal point of each project to Irwin?

5. What is the philosophy of human experience stemming in large part from the work of Edmund Husserl and his followers, with Jean Paul Sartre?

Short Essay Questions

1. By what is Irwin intrigued? What does Irwin do regarding this philosophy?

2. Where does Irwin submit proposals?

3. From where do non-art invitations come?

4. How does the desert become important to Irwin?

5. By what is Irwin now intrigued? How does this affect his work?

6. Describe Irwin's display at the Whitney Retrospective.

7. Describe Irwin's installation in the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art in 1975.

8. What does Maurice Tuchman organize?

9. With whom does Irwin work on this collaborative project? What do they discover about each other?

10. What do critics and viewers think of his work? What does he think of their opinions?

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