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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. Who typifies the lone-American type, filled with the spirit of the wilderness, according to Miller?
(a) Howard Welch.
(b) Emil White.
(c) Norman Rockwell.
(d) Oden Wharton.

2. What is the title of Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 11?
(a) "Visitors."
(b) "Testimonial in Ut-Mineur."
(c) "Down the Trestle."
(d) "The Millennium of Hieronymus Bosch."

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

4. Miller writes that "one must find new ways of looking at things to see ______ undiminished by creation's flaws."
(a) Earth.
(b) Death.
(c) Paradise.
(d) Life.

5. What is the colony of artists referred to at Big Sur in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 2?
(a) The Big Sur Family.
(b) The Anderson Street Gang.
(c) The Anderson Creek Gang.
(d) The Monterey Circle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the artists who come through Big Sur, in Miller's time there, are truly talented, according to Miller?

2. How had Doner supported himself in southern Europe?

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

4. When had Miller and Doner met in France?

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

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