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

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

3. When had Miller and Doner met in France?
(a) 1931/32.
(b) 1935/36.
(c) 1925/26.
(d) 1941/42.

4. Miller asserts that few city dwellers can stand solitude, but communities built on _____ and detachment are inevitable in this destructive world.
(a) Religion.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Benevolence.
(d) Simplification.

5. Miller is sometimes surprised by revelations of household tragedies too great to describe, even by who, whose domestic life is a sad joke?
(a) Chekhov.
(b) James.
(c) Conrad.
(d) Tolstoy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miller writes that in 19__ the U.S. tried to fix the world's problems, but had itself deteriorated.

2. Miller writes in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 13 that one must go through life learning what no one teaches and touching the sublime by doing the what?

3. Miller writes that people will do anything for ____, even piously chopping off heads in the French Revolution.

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

5. Who is a gifted story teller and expert in literature who suffers writer's block in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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