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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Henry Miller grow up?
(a) Big Sur, CA.
(b) Queens, NY.
(c) San Francisco, CA.
(d) Brooklyn, NY.

2. Who is the author of Big Sur Guide?
(a) Emil White.
(b) Jean Wharton.
(c) Conrad Moricand.
(d) Henry Miller.

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

4. Who is Miller's favorite of the child painters in Big Sur?
(a) Tasha Doner.
(b) Timmy Conway.
(c) Brian Cooper.
(d) Butch Eames.

5. Which mystery writer provides research on the Essene cult?
(a) Agatha Christie.
(b) Restif de la Bretonne.
(c) Lawrence Lipton.
(d) Sir Godfrey Higgins.

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

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

8. Which child is a Miller favorite, gentle, silent, and thankful for everything, probably a result of the torments he has endured having birth defects corrected?
(a) "Little Mike" Hougland.
(b) Peter Eames.
(c) Peter Houghland.
(d) Butch Eames.

9. Who gives outdoor piano concerts to ward off poverty at Big Sur?
(a) Henry Miller.
(b) Emil White.
(c) Conrad Moricand.
(d) Gerhart Muench.

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

11. Where does the Basque girl go after leaving Big Sur?
(a) Duck Creek, MT.
(b) San Francisco, CA.
(c) New York, NY.
(d) Paris, France.

12. Almost how many artists of all sorts come through Big Sur in Henry Miller's twelve years there?
(a) 20.
(b) 50.
(c) 100.
(d) 200.

13. Which family at Big Sur hails from Mexico and embodies the virtues that Americans most undervalue, according to Miller?
(a) The Diaz family.
(b) The Inez family.
(c) The Lee family.
(d) The Lopez family.

14. What is Hieronymus Bosch's most widely known triptych?
(a) The Garden of Earthly Delights.
(b) Venus.
(c) The Three Marys.
(d) The Cave of Pythagorus.

15. What family's home is often mistaken for a cafe, so they accommodate by selling sandwiches?
(a) The Whartons.
(b) The Muench's.
(c) The White's.
(d) The Millers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book of Miller's was banned in the United States?

2. What neighbor and benefactor of Miller's is trying to find herself in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 7?

3. Who is expelled from West Point and finishes a fine novel that remains unpublished when he moves to Big Sur, CA?

4. Miller writes that "one must find new ways of looking at things to see ______ undiminished by creation's flaws."

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

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