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

2. What would-be writer hopes to find the Cult of Sex and Anarchy?
(a) Ned.
(b) Phil.
(c) Roger.
(d) Ralph.

3. Miller receives letters from Ethiopia and Cairo, recommending that he read who?
(a) Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz.
(b) Emil White.
(c) Sir Godfrey Higgins.
(d) Restif de la Bretonne.

4. In what year is Miller in Villa Seurat?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1945.

5. Which family at Big Sur hails from Mexico and embodies the virtues that Americans most undervalue, according to Miller?
(a) The Diaz family.
(b) The Inez family.
(c) The Lopez family.
(d) The Lee family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Ephraim Doner born and raised?

2. From where does the Basque girl write to Miller for help?

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

4. Miller writes that if Jesus were to come back to earth, he would more likely sell what than send others off to die in war?

5. The adventures of Chama take place where?

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