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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 does Miller send Chama when he runs out of stories in an urban setting?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Italy.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Paris.

2. What is the title of Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 3, and refers to bedtime stories that Miller tells his children?
(a) "B as in Baxter."
(b) "The City Mouse."
(c) "The Karma Series."
(d) "The Chama Serial."

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

4. Miller finds it maddening as an artist to be incapable of capturing what adequately?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Light.
(c) Love.
(d) Life.

5. How old is Miller's favorite young painter at Big Sur?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does Miller learn much about painting, including having fun?

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

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

4. Miller asserts in Part 1, "The Oranges of the Millennium," that people fail to realize that life is what?

5. Which Big Sur resident is a Dresden, Germany-born pianist, composer, and musical scholar?

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