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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 is the family's name who keeps watch over the octogenarian from the sulfur baths?
(a) White.
(b) Eames.
(c) Wharton.
(d) Dodson.

2. 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.

3. In what year does Miller arrive in Big Sur?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1935.

4. Who gives outdoor piano concerts to ward off poverty at Big Sur?
(a) Gerhart Muench.
(b) Emil White.
(c) Henry Miller.
(d) Conrad Moricand.

5. Where did Henry Miller grow up?
(a) Big Sur, CA.
(b) Brooklyn, NY.
(c) Queens, NY.
(d) San Francisco, CA.

Short Answer Questions

1. One tourist visits Miller to spend hours looking through his what?

2. What does Miller save and study to learn other painters' art?

3. What does Miller find to be a constant nuisance in the beginning of the narrative?

4. Miller asserts in Part 1, "The Oranges of the Millennium," that people fail to realize that life is what?

5. Who has suffered much from the correction of physical defects but is a miniature Ramakrishna, thankful for everything?

(see the answer key)

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