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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. Whose maxim is it that genuine needs are always met?
(a) Emil White's.
(b) Anais Nin's.
(c) Jean Wharton's.
(d) Conrad Moricand's.

2. Miller writes in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 13 that one must go through life learning what no one teaches and touching the sublime by doing the what?
(a) Wise.
(b) Responsible.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Ridiculous.

3. Who is the author of Big Sur Guide?
(a) Henry Miller.
(b) Emil White.
(c) Jean Wharton.
(d) Conrad Moricand.

4. In Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 15, Miller writes that unless one knows where one is going, ____ leads there.
(a) No road.
(b) The wrong road.
(c) Any road.
(d) The last road.

5. From whom does Miller learn much about painting, including having fun?
(a) Jean Wharton.
(b) Emil White.
(c) Conrad Moricand.
(d) Jack Morgenrath.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miller finds it maddening as an artist to be incapable of capturing what adequately?

2. Where was Ephraim Doner born and raised?

3. Who is Miller's favorite of the child painters in Big Sur?

4. Which Big Sur resident is a Dresden, Germany-born pianist, composer, and musical scholar?

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

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