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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 can improve bad painting, according to Miller?
(a) Good hanging.
(b) Good framing.
(c) Good subject.
(d) Good lighting.

2. 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.

3. Where does Miller send Chama when he runs out of stories in an urban setting?
(a) Brazil.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Paris.
(d) Italy.

4. Who swears that he hears mysterious music coming from Miller's cabin rather than from his own head?
(a) Neiman.
(b) Moricand.
(c) Muench.
(d) White.

5. Who is the author of The Stranger in Big Sur?
(a) Jack Kerouac.
(b) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(c) Henry Miller.
(d) Lillian Bos Ross.

Short Answer Questions

1. Moricand holds that one does not "choose the ______."

2. Miller writes that British correspondents are the most vapid, with the exception of poet Lawrence Durrell and the elderly but ever enthusiastic ______.

3. Whose maxim is it that genuine needs are always met?

4. One tourist visits Miller to spend hours looking through his what?

5. Miller quotes a long passage from whose Travel Diary about the perfection of Japanese women and how Western women fail to imitate them?

(see the answer key)

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