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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 3, and refers to bedtime stories that Miller tells his children?
(a) "The City Mouse."
(b) "The Chama Serial."
(c) "The Karma Series."
(d) "B as in Baxter."

2. Miller asserts that all has been said and done and all one can add is what?
(a) Paint.
(b) Amen.
(c) Imitations.
(d) Adornment.

3. When had Miller and Doner met in France?
(a) 1935/36.
(b) 1941/42.
(c) 1925/26.
(d) 1931/32.

4. Miller is sometimes surprised by revelations of household tragedies too great to describe, even by who, whose domestic life is a sad joke?
(a) Chekhov.
(b) James.
(c) Conrad.
(d) Tolstoy.

5. All of the animals and plants in Bosch's paintings share a magic _____.
(a) Tranquility.
(b) Super-reality.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Beauty.

6. A Dutch visitor upbraids Miller for clearing what instead of writing?
(a) A septic tank.
(b) A field of brush.
(c) A forest.
(d) His backyard.

7. Miller writes that "one must find new ways of looking at things to see ______ undiminished by creation's flaws."
(a) Earth.
(b) Life.
(c) Death.
(d) Paradise.

8. What does Miller find to be a constant nuisance in the beginning of the narrative?
(a) Neighborhood dogs.
(b) Children.
(c) Ex-wives.
(d) Infatuated fans.

9. Miller writes in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 7 that Americans worship _____ and tell others that they do not know how to live.
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Materialism.
(c) Oil.
(d) Abundance.

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

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 Who is expelled from West Point and finishes a fine novel that remains unpublished when he moves to Big Sur, CA?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

12. Miller gets detailed letters on bladder care from a man where?
(a) In prison.
(b) In an asylum.
(c) In a nursing home.
(d) In New York.

13. In what year is Miller in Villa Seurat?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1945.

14. How had Doner supported himself in southern Europe?
(a) Sculpting for commissions.
(b) Sketching portraits.
(c) Playing piano.
(d) Playing cello.

15. Hieronymus Bosch's The Millennium is the title of what?
(a) A painting.
(b) A book.
(c) A song.
(d) A poem.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Miller asserts in Part 1, "The Oranges of the Millennium," that people fail to realize that life is what?

4. What does Miller do when his wife and children disappear and he has no means of communication?

5. Miller writes in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 10 that normal children are natural what?

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