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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. Since 1929, Miller has produced how many watercolors by Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 4?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 500.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 1,000.

2. Miller quotes a long passage from whose Travel Diary about the perfection of Japanese women and how Western women fail to imitate them?
(a) Conrad's.
(b) Walton's.
(c) Keyserling's.
(d) Myanak's.

3. Who is expelled from West Point and finishes a fine novel that remains unpublished when he moves to Big Sur, CA?
(a) Niels Scharmosky.
(b) Conrad Moricand.
(c) Norman Mini.
(d) Emil White.

4. Who is living in the studio and offers to help Miller take care of his children following the breakup of his marriage?
(a) Walter Winslow.
(b) Wilbur Robinson.
(c) Wilson Winslow.
(d) Walter Matthews.

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) Emil White.
(c) Jean Wharton.
(d) Conrad Moricand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miller writes that when patience fails, there is always what?

2. What astrological sign is Henry Miller?

3. With whom does Miller go to see reproductions of Turner works?

4. Where does the Basque girl go after leaving Big Sur?

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

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