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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 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Henry Miller grow up?
(a) San Francisco, CA.
(b) Brooklyn, NY.
(c) Queens, NY.
(d) Big Sur, CA.

2. Miller writes in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 10 that normal children are natural what?
(a) Saints.
(b) Angels.
(c) Tree-climbers.
(d) Hell-raisers.

3. Who reserves two rooms in his new estate for the Millers?
(a) Eugene Pachutinsky.
(b) Ephraim Doner.
(c) Conrad Moricand.
(d) Jean Wharton.

4. Miller finds it maddening as an artist to be incapable of capturing what adequately?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Life.
(c) Light.
(d) Love.

5. How had Doner supported himself in southern Europe?
(a) Playing piano.
(b) Sculpting for commissions.
(c) Sketching portraits.
(d) Playing cello.

Short Answer Questions

1. A brilliant young French-Canadian ponders his role in life in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 9, quoting Joseph Delteil and Chesterton on who?

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

3. In what year is Miller in Villa Seurat?

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

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?

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