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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. 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) Butch Eames.
(b) Peter Eames.
(c) "Little Mike" Hougland.
(d) Peter Houghland.

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

3. Miller asserts that few city dwellers can stand solitude, but communities built on _____ and detachment are inevitable in this destructive world.
(a) Evolution.
(b) Benevolence.
(c) Simplification.
(d) Religion.

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

5. Who swears that he hears mysterious music coming from Miller's cabin rather than from his own head?
(a) White.
(b) Muench.
(c) Neiman.
(d) Moricand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miller writes that "one must find new ways of looking at things to see ______ undiminished by creation's flaws."

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

3. How many of the artists who come through Big Sur, in Miller's time there, are truly talented, according to Miller?

4. What is Hieronymus Bosch's most widely known triptych?

5. Who operates the upscale Nepenthe Restaurant and let their five children run wild without thought of discipline?

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