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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. What is Hieronymus Bosch's most widely known triptych?
(a) The Garden of Earthly Delights.
(b) The Three Marys.
(c) The Cave of Pythagorus.
(d) Venus.

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

3. Many of the residents of Big Sur see what for a brief period of time?
(a) Shadows.
(b) UFOs.
(c) A sasquach.
(d) Ghosts.

4. From whom does Miller learn much about painting, including having fun?
(a) Emil White.
(b) Conrad Moricand.
(c) Jean Wharton.
(d) Jack Morgenrath.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 3, and refers to bedtime stories that Miller tells his children?

2. With whom does Miller go to see reproductions of Turner works?

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

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

5. All of the animals and plants in Bosch's paintings share a magic _____.

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