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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 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Miller is sometimes surprised by revelations of household tragedies too great to describe, even by who, whose domestic life is a sad joke?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Conrad.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) James.

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 Anderson Street Gang.
(c) The Anderson Creek Gang.
(d) The Monterey Circle.

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

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

5. What is the family's name who keeps watch over the octogenarian from the sulfur baths?
(a) Eames.
(b) White.
(c) Dodson.
(d) Wharton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Basque girl go after leaving Big Sur?

2. Miller writes that "one must find new ways of looking at things to see ______ undiminished by creation's flaws."

3. Wharton has spent much time and effort helping people see positives in negatives, but most people live how?

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

5. A Basque girl visits Miller, freezing and starving, to ask his views on who?

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