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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. What is Hieronymus Bosch's most widely known triptych?
(a) The Garden of Earthly Delights.
(b) The Three Marys.
(c) Venus.
(d) The Cave of Pythagorus.

2. Miller asserts in Part 1, "The Oranges of the Millennium," that people fail to realize that life is what?
(a) Serious.
(b) A dream.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) In God's image.

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

4. Who is expelled from West Point and finishes a fine novel that remains unpublished when he moves to Big Sur, CA?
(a) Niels Scharmosky.
(b) Emil White.
(c) Conrad Moricand.
(d) Norman Mini.

5. Many of the residents of Big Sur see what for a brief period of time?
(a) A sasquach.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) UFOs.
(d) Shadows.

Short Answer Questions

1. The adventures of Chama take place where?

2. What is the colony of artists referred to at Big Sur in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 2?

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

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

5. Which author is a Russian at heart and cannot find a publisher for his novel, The Falling Asleep?

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