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

2. Which Big Sur resident is a Dresden, Germany-born pianist, composer, and musical scholar?
(a) Ralph.
(b) Gerhart Meunch.
(c) Norman Mini.
(d) Gilbert Neiman.

3. What family's home is often mistaken for a cafe, so they accommodate by selling sandwiches?
(a) The Whartons.
(b) The Millers.
(c) The White's.
(d) The Muench's.

4. Miller asserts in Part 1, "The Oranges of the Millennium," that people fail to realize that life is what?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) In God's image.
(c) A dream.
(d) Serious.

5. What is the title of Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 3, and refers to bedtime stories that Miller tells his children?
(a) "The Karma Series."
(b) "The City Mouse."
(c) "The Chama Serial."
(d) "B as in Baxter."

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Miller arrive in Big Sur?

2. Miller asserts that few city dwellers can stand solitude, but communities built on _____ and detachment are inevitable in this destructive world.

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

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

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

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