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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Paradise Lost, pgs. 309-349.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What French-speaking friend visits Miller but soon wants to throw Moricand off a cliff?
(a) Wharton.
(b) Gilbert.
(c) White.
(d) Rogers.

2. Miller receives letters from Ethiopia and Cairo, recommending that he read who?
(a) Emil White.
(b) Restif de la Bretonne.
(c) Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz.
(d) Sir Godfrey Higgins.

3. Miller asserts that Americans enjoy the highest standard of living but spend more on fighting what than curing serious diseases?
(a) Odors.
(b) Tax wars.
(c) Europeans.
(d) Microbes.

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 Who is expelled from West Point and finishes a fine novel that remains unpublished when he moves to Big Sur, CA?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

5. What is an absolute reality for Moricand?
(a) Evil.
(b) War.
(c) Love.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which family at Big Sur hails from Mexico and embodies the virtues that Americans most undervalue, according to Miller?

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

3. What lessens the idealism of Big Sur as a place for Miller to write?

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

5. A brilliant young French-Canadian ponders his role in life in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 9, quoting Joseph Delteil and Chesterton on who?

(see the answer key)

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