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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. Muench practicing who inspires Miller to paint music?
(a) Ravel.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Berlioz.
(d) Bach.

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

3. Miller states that monkeys picking one another's fleas accomplish more than what?
(a) Men.
(b) Children.
(c) Women.
(d) Diplomacy.

4. What does Miller use to wrap books in to send to friends?
(a) Failed paintings.
(b) Book manuscripts.
(c) Newspaper articles.
(d) Corn husks.

5. 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) The last road.
(d) Any road.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose maxim is it that genuine needs are always met?

2. Miller asserts that Americans enjoy the highest standard of living but spend more on fighting what than curing serious diseases?

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

4. What is the last plate in The Millennium of Hieronymus Bosch?

5. Miller writes that British correspondents are the most vapid, with the exception of poet Lawrence Durrell and the elderly but ever enthusiastic ______.

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