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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 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gives outdoor piano concerts to ward off poverty at Big Sur?
(a) Henry Miller.
(b) Emil White.
(c) Conrad Moricand.
(d) Gerhart Muench.

2. What lessens the idealism of Big Sur as a place for Miller to write?
(a) Weather.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Visitors.
(d) Children.

3. Miller writes that people need what as much as they ignore it?
(a) Love.
(b) Family.
(c) Art.
(d) Friendship.

4. Who is a gifted story teller and expert in literature who suffers writer's block in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 1?
(a) Henry.
(b) Ralph.
(c) Harvey.
(d) Mary.

5. Which Big Sur resident is a Dresden, Germany-born pianist, composer, and musical scholar?
(a) Norman Mini.
(b) Gilbert Neiman.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Gerhart Meunch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fledgling writers seek advice from Miller, but writing is a what to him?

2. In what year does Miller arrive in Big Sur?

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

4. Who swears that he hears mysterious music coming from Miller's cabin rather than from his own head?

5. Who begins a yearlong yarn about a superman-like character named Inch Connecticut?

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