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

2. Hieronymus Bosch's The Millennium is the title of what?
(a) A song.
(b) A painting.
(c) A poem.
(d) A book.

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

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 Who is expelled from West Point and finishes a fine novel that remains unpublished when he moves to Big Sur, CA?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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Muench practicing who inspires Miller to paint music?

2. What religion do people say Jean Wharton is?

3. What does Miller find to be a constant nuisance in the beginning of the narrative?

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

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

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