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

2. Which family at Big Sur hails from Mexico and embodies the virtues that Americans most undervalue, according to Miller?
(a) The Lopez family.
(b) The Diaz family.
(c) The Inez family.
(d) The Lee family.

3. Hieronymus Bosch's The Millennium is the title of what?
(a) A painting.
(b) A song.
(c) A book.
(d) A poem.

4. Which child is a Miller favorite, gentle, silent, and thankful for everything, probably a result of the torments he has endured having birth defects corrected?
(a) "Little Mike" Hougland.
(b) Butch Eames.
(c) Peter Eames.
(d) Peter Houghland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Many of the residents of Big Sur see what for a brief period of time?

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

3. What does Miller use to wrap books in to send to friends?

4. What can improve bad painting, according to Miller?

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

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