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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 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the colony of artists referred to at Big Sur in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 2?
(a) The Big Sur Family.
(b) The Monterey Circle.
(c) The Anderson Street Gang.
(d) The Anderson Creek Gang.

3. Which author is a Russian at heart and cannot find a publisher for his novel, The Falling Asleep?
(a) Niels Scharmosky.
(b) Jake Kenney.
(c) Emil White.
(d) Conrad Moricand.

4. What does Miller save and study to learn other painters' art?
(a) Calendars.
(b) Books.
(c) Postcards.
(d) Photographs.

5. Miller asserts that few city dwellers can stand solitude, but communities built on _____ and detachment are inevitable in this destructive world.
(a) Benevolence.
(b) Religion.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Simplification.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Miller's favorite of the child painters in Big Sur?

2. What does Miller find to be a constant nuisance in the beginning of the narrative?

3. Which family at Big Sur hails from Mexico and embodies the virtues that Americans most undervalue, according to Miller?

4. Miller quotes a long passage from whose Travel Diary about the perfection of Japanese women and how Western women fail to imitate them?

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

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