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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) Book manuscripts.
(b) Corn husks.
(c) Failed paintings.
(d) Newspaper articles.

2. Miller writes that the local folk in Big Sur have embraced the healing ambiance and discovered how to live in peace, _____, and community.
(a) Fortitude.
(b) Solitude.
(c) Humility.
(d) Quiet.

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

4. Miller writes that in 19__ the U.S. tried to fix the world's problems, but had itself deteriorated.
(a) 45.
(b) 21.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

5. Who is expelled from West Point and finishes a fine novel that remains unpublished when he moves to Big Sur, CA?
(a) Norman Mini.
(b) Conrad Moricand.
(c) Niels Scharmosky.
(d) Emil White.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where does Miller send Chama when he runs out of stories in an urban setting?

4. 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?

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

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