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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miller find to be a constant nuisance in the beginning of the narrative?
(a) Infatuated fans.
(b) Neighborhood dogs.
(c) Children.
(d) Ex-wives.

2. Almost how many artists of all sorts come through Big Sur in Henry Miller's twelve years there?
(a) 20.
(b) 100.
(c) 200.
(d) 50.

3. Who gives outdoor piano concerts to ward off poverty at Big Sur?
(a) Gerhart Muench.
(b) Conrad Moricand.
(c) Emil White.
(d) Henry Miller.

4. How many of the artists who come through Big Sur, in Miller's time there, are truly talented, according to Miller?
(a) 100.
(b) 12.
(c) 20.
(d) 50.

5. Miller believes that young writers must learn by personal experience and lacks both the energy and knowledge to do what?
(a) Evaluate students.
(b) Teach.
(c) Evaluate manuscripts.
(d) Refer publishers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which author is a Russian at heart and cannot find a publisher for his novel, The Falling Asleep?

2. How far are the sulfur baths from Miller's home, round-trip, in the Epilogue?

3. Who is Miller's brother-in-law in Jerusalem?

4. What is the last plate in The Millennium of Hieronymus Bosch?

5. Miller writes that "one must find new ways of looking at things to see ______ undiminished by creation's flaws."

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