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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Paradise Lost, pgs. 349-385.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Moricand assert gives character and strength?
(a) Money.
(b) Stories.
(c) Willpower.
(d) Suffering.

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

3. Moricand gives Miller a precious copy of what?
(a) Finnegan's Wake.
(b) Balzac's Metamorphosis.
(c) Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
(d) Balzac's Seraphita.

4. Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 14, "A Day at the Baths," sketches ______, a place of solitude when Miller is lucky.
(a) Slade's Springs.
(b) Oregon Springs.
(c) Kineback Springs.
(d) Johnson Springs.

5. Where does the Basque girl go after leaving Big Sur?
(a) Duck Creek, MT.
(b) New York, NY.
(c) San Francisco, CA.
(d) Paris, France.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gives outdoor piano concerts to ward off poverty at Big Sur?

2. What is Hieronymus Bosch's most widely known triptych?

3. Miller writes in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 7 that Americans worship _____ and tell others that they do not know how to live.

4. Who is Miller married to in Part 3, "Paradise Lost"?

5. Miller writes that people will do anything for ____, even piously chopping off heads in the French Revolution.

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