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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Paradise Lost, pgs. 309-349.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who operates the upscale Nepenthe Restaurant and let their five children run wild without thought of discipline?
(a) The Fassetts.
(b) The Waltons.
(c) The Whites.
(d) The Whartons.

2. Miller quotes a long passage from whose Travel Diary about the perfection of Japanese women and how Western women fail to imitate them?
(a) Walton's.
(b) Myanak's.
(c) Conrad's.
(d) Keyserling's.

3. What does Miller use to wrap books in to send to friends?
(a) Book manuscripts.
(b) Corn husks.
(c) Newspaper articles.
(d) Failed paintings.

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

5. Miller finds it maddening as an artist to be incapable of capturing what adequately?
(a) Light.
(b) Life.
(c) Love.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miller writes in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 10 that normal children are natural what?

2. Whereas _____ deals in potentialities, Miller desires actualities like God and humanity.

3. Who is living in the studio and offers to help Miller take care of his children following the breakup of his marriage?

4. What denomination of preacher is Miller's favorite bootblack in Monterey?

5. Who paints Miller's portrait as he is coming out of depression following his divorce?

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