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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. Where does the Basque girl go after leaving Big Sur?
(a) New York, NY.
(b) Duck Creek, MT.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) San Francisco, CA.

2. With whom is Miller constantly fighting in Part 3, "Paradise Lost"?
(a) Janina.
(b) Mary.
(c) Emil Wharton.
(d) Jean Wharton.

3. Who is a fiery Spanish recluse who shares the same privileged background as Moricand and spends a night talking with him of the past?
(a) Leon Shamroy.
(b) Marcel de Pinzo.
(c) Jaime de Angulo.
(d) Antoine Renoult.

4. Who begins a yearlong yarn about a superman-like character named Inch Connecticut?
(a) Ralph.
(b) Conrad Moricand.
(c) Henry Miller.
(d) Paul Rink.

5. Miller writes in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 7 that Americans worship _____ and tell others that they do not know how to live.
(a) Abundance.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Materialism.
(d) Oil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Moricand refuses to teach who French, feeling that American children are undisciplined?

2. What does Miller use to wrap books in to send to friends?

3. Miller asserts that Americans enjoy the highest standard of living but spend more on fighting what than curing serious diseases?

4. In what year does Moricand come to stay with the Millers?

5. Miller writes that people need what as much as they ignore it?

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