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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Miller quotes a long passage from whose Travel Diary about the perfection of Japanese women and how Western women fail to imitate them?
(a) Conrad's.
(b) Myanak's.
(c) Walton's.
(d) Keyserling's.

2. Muench practicing who inspires Miller to paint music?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Bach.
(c) Berlioz.
(d) Ravel.

3. Who paints Miller's portrait as he is coming out of depression following his divorce?
(a) Ephraim Doner.
(b) Chaim Doner.
(c) Abraham Doner.
(d) Abraham Schwartz.

4. Who was Miller's childhood friend and a victim of poison gas in World War I?
(a) Eddie Carney.
(b) Paul Burts.
(c) Jackie Ross.
(d) Phillip Simmons.

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

6. 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) Dickens.
(b) Twain.
(c) Odets.
(d) Shakespeare.

7. Miller writes that in 19__ the U.S. tried to fix the world's problems, but had itself deteriorated.
(a) 45.
(b) 16.
(c) 21.
(d) 14.

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

9. A Basque girl visits Miller, freezing and starving, to ask his views on who?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Kant.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Einstein.

10. Fledgling writers seek advice from Miller, but writing is a what to him?
(a) Gift.
(b) Secret.
(c) Calvary.
(d) Danger.

11. Miller finds it maddening as an artist to be incapable of capturing what adequately?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Love.
(c) Life.
(d) Light.

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

13. Miller asserts in Part 1, "The Oranges of the Millennium," that people fail to realize that life is what?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Serious.
(c) In God's image.
(d) A dream.

14. Who operates the upscale Nepenthe Restaurant and let their five children run wild without thought of discipline?
(a) The Whites.
(b) The Whartons.
(c) The Fassetts.
(d) The Waltons.

15. Who begins a yearlong yarn about a superman-like character named Inch Connecticut?
(a) Henry Miller.
(b) Ralph.
(c) Paul Rink.
(d) Conrad Moricand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miller writes in Part 1, "The Oranges of the Millennium," that he who comes to Big Sur must come with capable hands, a strong heart, and a sense of humor, and expect no _______.

2. What does Miller use to wrap books in to send to friends?

3. Which mystery writer provides research on the Essene cult?

4. What is the family's name who keeps watch over the octogenarian from the sulfur baths?

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

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