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

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

3. A Dutch visitor upbraids Miller for clearing what instead of writing?
(a) A septic tank.
(b) A forest.
(c) His backyard.
(d) A field of brush.

4. Miller writes that "one must find new ways of looking at things to see ______ undiminished by creation's flaws."
(a) Earth.
(b) Paradise.
(c) Life.
(d) Death.

5. Where did Henry Miller grow up?
(a) San Francisco, CA.
(b) Queens, NY.
(c) Big Sur, CA.
(d) Brooklyn, NY.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the artists who come through Big Sur, in Miller's time there, are truly talented, according to Miller?

2. Many of the residents of Big Sur see what for a brief period of time?

3. Almost how many artists of all sorts come through Big Sur in Henry Miller's twelve years there?

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

5. The adventures of Chama take place where?

(see the answer key)

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