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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. Who penned The Keys to the Apocalypse?
(a) Sir Godfrey Higgins.
(b) Charlotte Bronte.
(c) Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz.
(d) Emil White.

2. Which Big Sur resident is a Dresden, Germany-born pianist, composer, and musical scholar?
(a) Gilbert Neiman.
(b) Norman Mini.
(c) Gerhart Meunch.
(d) Ralph.

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

4. With whom does Miller go to see reproductions of Turner works?
(a) O'Reagan.
(b) Janina.
(c) Mike Anderson.
(d) O'Neill.

5. Who is the octogenarian Miller often meets at the sulfur baths in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 5?
(a) Conrad Moricand.
(b) Oden Wharton.
(c) Emil White.
(d) Jean Wharton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the colony of artists referred to at Big Sur in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 2?

2. How had Doner supported himself in southern Europe?

3. Miller writes that people will do anything for ____, even piously chopping off heads in the French Revolution.

4. In Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 15, Miller writes that unless one knows where one is going, ____ leads there.

5. What is the title of Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 3, and refers to bedtime stories that Miller tells his children?

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