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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. Miller gets detailed letters on bladder care from a man where?
(a) In prison.
(b) In an asylum.
(c) In New York.
(d) In a nursing home.

2. According to Miller, the Western home is a _____.
(a) Purgatory.
(b) Sanctuary.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Battlefield.

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

4. Who is Miller's brother-in-law in Jerusalem?
(a) Gordon Lifshitz.
(b) Geoff Schatz.
(c) Lilik Schatz.
(d) Lilik Leys.

5. What neighbor and benefactor of Miller's is trying to find herself in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 7?
(a) Jean Wharton.
(b) Emily Wharton.
(c) Oden Wharton.
(d) Annette Rockefeller.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which mystery writer provides research on the Essene cult?

3. Miller writes in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 7 that Americans worship _____ and tell others that they do not know how to live.

4. Miller writes that British correspondents are the most vapid, with the exception of poet Lawrence Durrell and the elderly but ever enthusiastic ______.

5. How old is Miller's favorite young painter at Big Sur?

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