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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 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Miller quotes a long passage from whose Travel Diary about the perfection of Japanese women and how Western women fail to imitate them?
(a) Keyserling's.
(b) Conrad's.
(c) Walton's.
(d) Myanak's.

3. Who is expelled from West Point and finishes a fine novel that remains unpublished when he moves to Big Sur, CA?
(a) Niels Scharmosky.
(b) Norman Mini.
(c) Emil White.
(d) Conrad Moricand.

4. Who was Miller's childhood friend and a victim of poison gas in World War I?
(a) Eddie Carney.
(b) Paul Burts.
(c) Phillip Simmons.
(d) Jackie Ross.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Miller writes that people need what as much as they ignore it?

2. How old is Miller's favorite young painter at Big Sur?

3. All of the animals and plants in Bosch's paintings share a magic _____.

4. 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?

5. Which author is a Russian at heart and cannot find a publisher for his novel, The Falling Asleep?

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