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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. Which child is a Miller favorite, gentle, silent, and thankful for everything, probably a result of the torments he has endured having birth defects corrected?
(a) Butch Eames.
(b) "Little Mike" Hougland.
(c) Peter Houghland.
(d) Peter Eames.

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

3. With whom does Miller go to see reproductions of Turner works?
(a) Mike Anderson.
(b) O'Neill.
(c) O'Reagan.
(d) Janina.

4. Miller quotes a long passage from whose Travel Diary about the perfection of Japanese women and how Western women fail to imitate them?
(a) Keyserling's.
(b) Myanak's.
(c) Walton's.
(d) Conrad's.

5. What family's home is often mistaken for a cafe, so they accommodate by selling sandwiches?
(a) The Millers.
(b) The White's.
(c) The Muench's.
(d) The Whartons.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Miller writes in Part 1, "The Oranges of the Millennium," that he who comes to Big Sur must come with capable hands, a strong heart, and a sense of humor, and expect no _______.

3. Who was Miller's childhood friend and a victim of poison gas in World War I?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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