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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Paradise Lost, pgs. 275-309.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From whom does Miller learn much about painting, including having fun?
(a) Jean Wharton.
(b) Conrad Moricand.
(c) Emil White.
(d) Jack Morgenrath.

2. Miller writes that Big Sur feels naked and vulnerable, an apt setting for what?
(a) Melodramas.
(b) Roman tragedies.
(c) Greek tragedies.
(d) Shakespearean tragedies.

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

4. Who operates the upscale Nepenthe Restaurant and let their five children run wild without thought of discipline?
(a) The Fassetts.
(b) The Whites.
(c) The Waltons.
(d) The Whartons.

5. What astrological sign is Henry Miller?
(a) Gemini.
(b) Capricorn.
(c) Taurus.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Part 3, "Paradise Lost," refers to a poem by whom?

2. Who is Miller's favorite of the child painters in Big Sur?

3. Miller must refrain from admiring any belonging of Moricand's, lest he insist on what?

4. Who was Miller's childhood friend and a victim of poison gas in World War I?

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

(see the answer key)

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