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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. What does Miller do when his wife and children disappear and he has no means of communication?
(a) Writes.
(b) Knits.
(c) Prays.
(d) Sings.

2. What does Miller find to be a constant nuisance in the beginning of the narrative?
(a) Ex-wives.
(b) Children.
(c) Neighborhood dogs.
(d) Infatuated fans.

3. Miller writes that when patience fails, there is always what?
(a) Time.
(b) Money.
(c) Eternity.
(d) Love.

4. Who is Miller's favorite of the child painters in Big Sur?
(a) Tasha Doner.
(b) Timmy Conway.
(c) Brian Cooper.
(d) Butch Eames.

5. A Dutch visitor upbraids Miller for clearing what instead of writing?
(a) A septic tank.
(b) A forest.
(c) His backyard.
(d) A field of brush.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the family's name who keeps watch over the octogenarian from the sulfur baths?

2. Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 9 opens with Miller borrowing the _____ concept of "clearing,"

3. Miller quotes a long passage from whose Travel Diary about the perfection of Japanese women and how Western women fail to imitate them?

4. Miller writes in Part 1, "The Oranges of the Millennium," that he who comes to Big Sur must come with capable hands, a strong heart, and a sense of humor, and expect no _______.

5. Who is Miller's favorite bootblack in Monterey?

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