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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. Not knowing what direction his life is taking, Irwin does what?
(a) Goes to church.
(b) Visits a therapist.
(c) Goes into seclusion.
(d) Makes himself available at no cost to anyone who needs him.

2. The passion of Irwin's career has been continually fighting what?
(a) The difficult premise that art is a metaphor of the world.
(b) The difficult premise that art is a metaphor of the future.
(c) The difficult premise that art is a metaphor of the past.
(d) The difficult premise that art is a metaphor of the present.

3. Irwin sets about reading everything he can about this philosophy, sometimes spending how much time reading, analyzing, and trying to understand every turn of phrase?
(a) A week.
(b) All day.
(c) An hour.
(d) Ten minutes.

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

5. What is the focal point of each project to Irwin?
(a) The light.
(b) The elements.
(c) The space.
(d) The principles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Irwin's new works involve?

2. I think therefore _____________.

3. During the mid and late sixties, Irwin supplements his meager art income with earnings from his stints as a teacher. However, his main source of income during this period is from what?

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

5. Are the challenges he poses often too large and too ambitious to reasonably expect resolution?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the desert become important to Irwin?

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

3. What leads Irwin to painting discs?

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

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

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

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

8. With what is Irwin concerned at this time?

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

10. From where do non-art invitations come?

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