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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 book of Miller's was banned in the United States?
(a) Crazy Cook.
(b) Tropic of Cancer.
(c) Black Spring.
(d) Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch.

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

3. Miller writes that people need what as much as they ignore it?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Art.
(c) Love.
(d) Family.

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

5. How many of the artists who come through Big Sur, in Miller's time there, are truly talented, according to Miller?
(a) 12.
(b) 50.
(c) 20.
(d) 100.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Big Sur Guide?

2. Who operates the upscale Nepenthe Restaurant and let their five children run wild without thought of discipline?

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

4. Many of the residents of Big Sur see what for a brief period of time?

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

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