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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. What does Miller use to wrap books in to send to friends?
(a) Newspaper articles.
(b) Failed paintings.
(c) Book manuscripts.
(d) Corn husks.

2. Which Big Sur resident is a Dresden, Germany-born pianist, composer, and musical scholar?
(a) Norman Mini.
(b) Ralph.
(c) Gilbert Neiman.
(d) Gerhart Meunch.

3. Which author is a Russian at heart and cannot find a publisher for his novel, The Falling Asleep?
(a) Niels Scharmosky.
(b) Jake Kenney.
(c) Emil White.
(d) Conrad Moricand.

4. What denomination of preacher is Miller's favorite bootblack in Monterey?
(a) Presbyterian.
(b) Baptist.
(c) Methodist.
(d) Pentecostal.

5. Miller writes that Jews and _____ are America's only truly selfless givers.
(a) Blacks.
(b) Indians.
(c) Arabs.
(d) Goys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lessens the idealism of Big Sur as a place for Miller to write?

2. Where was Ephraim Doner born and raised?

3. Hieronymus Bosch's The Millennium is the title of what?

4. What neighbor and benefactor of Miller's is trying to find herself in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 7?

5. Miller writes that the local folk in Big Sur have embraced the healing ambiance and discovered how to live in peace, _____, and community.

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