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

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

3. Who begins a yearlong yarn about a superman-like character named Inch Connecticut?
(a) Conrad Moricand.
(b) Paul Rink.
(c) Henry Miller.
(d) Ralph.

4. What can improve bad painting, according to Miller?
(a) Good lighting.
(b) Good subject.
(c) Good hanging.
(d) Good framing.

5. Miller asserts in Part 1, "The Oranges of the Millennium," that people fail to realize that life is what?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) In God's image.
(c) A dream.
(d) Serious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miller asserts that few city dwellers can stand solitude, but communities built on _____ and detachment are inevitable in this destructive world.

2. In what year does Miller arrive in Big Sur?

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

4. Since 1929, Miller has produced how many watercolors by Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 4?

5. A Dutch visitor upbraids Miller for clearing what instead of writing?

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