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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. Moricand speaks in what language?
(a) Italian.
(b) German.
(c) Portugese.
(d) French.

2. Miller finds it maddening as an artist to be incapable of capturing what adequately?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Life.
(c) Light.
(d) Love.

3. Miller writes in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 13 that one must go through life learning what no one teaches and touching the sublime by doing the what?
(a) Wise.
(b) Ridiculous.
(c) Responsible.
(d) Artistic.

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

5. Miller talks his friends into commissioning what from Moricand and eventually invents customers, for whom he pays?
(a) Sketches.
(b) Horoscopes.
(c) Paintings.
(d) Poems.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miller questions that if Jesus were to come back again, people might do what to him?

2. In Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 13, Miller contemplates how little ___ debates on ending fighting accomplish.

3. Which Big Sur resident is a Dresden, Germany-born pianist, composer, and musical scholar?

4. Moricand tells Val a winding tale about Paris that ends with him buying the services of a what?

5. What astrological sign is Henry Miller?

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