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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. Miller writes that the local folk in Big Sur have embraced the healing ambiance and discovered how to live in peace, _____, and community.
(a) Fortitude.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Humility.

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

3. Who operates the upscale Nepenthe Restaurant and let their five children run wild without thought of discipline?
(a) The Whites.
(b) The Waltons.
(c) The Fassetts.
(d) The Whartons.

4. Who was Miller's childhood friend and a victim of poison gas in World War I?
(a) Phillip Simmons.
(b) Jackie Ross.
(c) Paul Burts.
(d) Eddie Carney.

5. 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) Peter Eames.
(b) Butch Eames.
(c) "Little Mike" Hougland.
(d) Peter Houghland.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who gives outdoor piano concerts to ward off poverty at Big Sur?

3. Miller finds it maddening as an artist to be incapable of capturing what adequately?

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

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

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