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

2. Irwin feels so self-indulgent in his own work that ___________________ as a means in which he can serve society as a whole.
(a) He offers his services cost free.
(b) He only talks about art.
(c) He only teaches.
(d) He gives his art away to the poor.

3. There is a thin black ________ around the room at eye level.
(a) Series of circles.
(b) Line.
(c) String.
(d) String of pearls.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Irwin finds _______________ who creates perfect discs for him.

2. Over the last __________ years, Irwin had connected his thinking process to the art objects he was making.

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

4. Do many viewers "get it?"

5. Due to changing light and time of day, this fabric appears how?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when enthusiasm for Irwin grows?

2. What is phenomenology? What does Irwin think of this and the work done regarding this?

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

4. What do viewers think of this display?

5. How did Irwin see this display?

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

7. From where do non-art invitations come?

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

9. What does Irwin do now that he has decided to stop making art to sell?

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

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