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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. Miller asserts in Part 1, "The Oranges of the Millennium," that people fail to realize that life is what?
(a) A dream.
(b) Serious.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) In God's image.

2. Who gives outdoor piano concerts to ward off poverty at Big Sur?
(a) Conrad Moricand.
(b) Gerhart Muench.
(c) Emil White.
(d) Henry Miller.

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

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

5. Who is the octogenarian Miller often meets at the sulfur baths in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 5?
(a) Oden Wharton.
(b) Conrad Moricand.
(c) Jean Wharton.
(d) Emil White.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book of Miller's was banned in the United States?

2. Miller asserts that Americans enjoy the highest standard of living but spend more on fighting what than curing serious diseases?

3. From whom does Miller learn much about painting, including having fun?

4. Moricand finds American meals and what to be insufficient?

5. Moricand often lectures Miller on how the laws of the universe determine one's fate even more than the what?

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