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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Moricand holds that one does not "choose the ______."
(a) Unchoosable.
(b) Unwise.
(c) Ungodly.
(d) Sinful.

2. Moricand gives Miller a precious copy of what?
(a) Balzac's Metamorphosis.
(b) Finnegan's Wake.
(c) Balzac's Seraphita.
(d) Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.

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

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

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?
(a) Twain.
(b) Odets.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Big Sur resident is a Dresden, Germany-born pianist, composer, and musical scholar?

2. Moricand's war experiences began where?

3. Miller talks his friends into commissioning what from Moricand and eventually invents customers, for whom he pays?

4. How old is Miller's favorite young painter at Big Sur?

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

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