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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri, Chapters 13-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miller do when his wife and children disappear and he has no means of communication?
(a) Sings.
(b) Knits.
(c) Writes.
(d) Prays.

2. What neighbor and benefactor of Miller's is trying to find herself in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 7?
(a) Jean Wharton.
(b) Emily Wharton.
(c) Annette Rockefeller.
(d) Oden Wharton.

3. Which child is a Miller favorite, gentle, silent, and thankful for everything, probably a result of the torments he has endured having birth defects corrected?
(a) "Little Mike" Hougland.
(b) Butch Eames.
(c) Peter Eames.
(d) Peter Houghland.

4. What does Miller save and study to learn other painters' art?
(a) Books.
(b) Photographs.
(c) Postcards.
(d) Calendars.

5. Miller states that monkeys picking one another's fleas accomplish more than what?
(a) Women.
(b) Men.
(c) Diplomacy.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Miller's childhood friend and a victim of poison gas in World War I?

2. With whom does Miller go to see reproductions of Turner works?

3. What can improve bad painting, according to Miller?

4. Miller quotes a long passage from whose Travel Diary about the perfection of Japanese women and how Western women fail to imitate them?

5. Who swears that he hears mysterious music coming from Miller's cabin rather than from his own head?

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