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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) Beauty.
(b) Light.
(c) Life.
(d) Love.

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

3. Who begins a yearlong yarn about a superman-like character named Inch Connecticut?
(a) Henry Miller.
(b) Conrad Moricand.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Paul Rink.

4. Miller asserts that Americans enjoy the highest standard of living but spend more on fighting what than curing serious diseases?
(a) Tax wars.
(b) Odors.
(c) Microbes.
(d) Europeans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 11?

2. How had Doner supported himself in southern Europe?

3. 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?

4. Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 14, "A Day at the Baths," sketches ______, a place of solitude when Miller is lucky.

5. Miller questions that if Jesus were to come back again, people might do what to him?

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