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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. Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 9 opens with Miller borrowing the _____ concept of "clearing,"
(a) Dianetics.
(b) Calvinist.
(c) Quaker.
(d) Catholic.

2. Miller writes that in 19__ the U.S. tried to fix the world's problems, but had itself deteriorated.
(a) 16.
(b) 21.
(c) 45.
(d) 14.

3. A brilliant young French-Canadian ponders his role in life in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 9, quoting Joseph Delteil and Chesterton on who?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Twain.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Odets.

4. Miller writes that Big Sur feels naked and vulnerable, an apt setting for what?
(a) Roman tragedies.
(b) Greek tragedies.
(c) Shakespearean tragedies.
(d) Melodramas.

5. What Egyptian wants to be Miller's valet to survive in materialistic America?
(a) Warren Leopold.
(b) Mohammed Ali Lebon.
(c) Mohammed Ali Sarwat.
(d) Howard Welch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who operates the upscale Nepenthe Restaurant and let their five children run wild without thought of discipline?

2. Miller quotes a long passage from whose Travel Diary about the perfection of Japanese women and how Western women fail to imitate them?

3. Who is a gifted story teller and expert in literature who suffers writer's block in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 1?

4. Miller states that well-behaved children rarely grow into what kind of adults?

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

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