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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. Miller receives letters from Ethiopia and Cairo, recommending that he read who?
(a) Emil White.
(b) Sir Godfrey Higgins.
(c) Restif de la Bretonne.
(d) Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz.

2. What does Miller do when his wife and children disappear and he has no means of communication?
(a) Writes.
(b) Prays.
(c) Knits.
(d) Sings.

3. Fledgling writers seek advice from Miller, but writing is a what to him?
(a) Gift.
(b) Secret.
(c) Calvary.
(d) Danger.

4. The adventures of Chama take place where?
(a) Italy.
(b) New York.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Mexico.

5. Who is the author of Big Sur Guide?
(a) Conrad Moricand.
(b) Jean Wharton.
(c) Henry Miller.
(d) Emil White.

Short Answer Questions

1. Moricand finds American meals and what to be insufficient?

2. Miller finds it maddening as an artist to be incapable of capturing what adequately?

3. Miller writes that people will do anything for ____, even piously chopping off heads in the French Revolution.

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

5. What book of Miller's was banned in the United States?

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