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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Egyptian wants to be Miller's valet to survive in materialistic America?
(a) Mohammed Ali Lebon.
(b) Howard Welch.
(c) Warren Leopold.
(d) Mohammed Ali Sarwat.

2. Who penned The Keys to the Apocalypse?
(a) Emil White.
(b) Sir Godfrey Higgins.
(c) Charlotte Bronte.
(d) Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz.

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

4. Who is the impoverished, fatalistic astrologer for whom Miller is made financially responsible from Paris in 1936-39?
(a) Mohammed Ali Sarwat.
(b) Emile White.
(c) Conrad Moricand.
(d) Jean Wharton.

5. Moricand detests the Republic and seems to have had prior lives in ancient Alexandria and where else?
(a) Britain.
(b) Persia.
(c) Greece.
(d) Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Miller send Chama when he runs out of stories in an urban setting?

2. Moricand surprises Miller in Part 3, "Paradise Lost," by saying that it is _____ to care for someone and require him to do nothing.

3. Almost how many artists of all sorts come through Big Sur in Henry Miller's twelve years there?

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

5. What does Moricand declare life to be?

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