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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Paradise Lost, pgs. 349-385.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 14, "A Day at the Baths," sketches ______, a place of solitude when Miller is lucky.
(a) Slade's Springs.
(b) Oregon Springs.
(c) Johnson Springs.
(d) Kineback Springs.

2. Who penned The Keys to the Apocalypse?
(a) Charlotte Bronte.
(b) Emil White.
(c) Sir Godfrey Higgins.
(d) Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz.

3. Where does Miller take Moricand to the hospital in Part 3, "Paradise Lost"?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Paris.
(d) Salinas.

4. Where does Moricand move after leaving Big Sur?
(a) Sacramento.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) San Diego.

5. Moricand rants about Wharton wanting him to read who?
(a) Kant.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Mary Baker Eddy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Miller's brother-in-law in Jerusalem?

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

4. What would-be writer hopes to find the Cult of Sex and Anarchy?

5. An amalgam of types, Moricand is above all a ______.

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