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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Miller recalls being disciplined (thrashed) by his father how many times?
(a) Twice.
(b) Three times.
(c) Dozens of times.
(d) Once.

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

4. Since 1929, Miller has produced how many watercolors by Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 4?
(a) 500.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 5,000.

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

6. What book of Miller's was banned in the United States?
(a) Tropic of Cancer.
(b) Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch.
(c) Black Spring.
(d) Crazy Cook.

7. Who is the author of The Thirteen Crucified Saviours?
(a) James Conrad.
(b) Sir Godfrey Higgins.
(c) Jean Wharton.
(d) Emil White.

8. Miller writes that British correspondents are the most vapid, with the exception of poet Lawrence Durrell and the elderly but ever enthusiastic ______.
(a) Sir Walter Scott.
(b) William Keys.
(c) John Cowper Powys.
(d) Brant Brandon.

9. Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 9 opens with Miller borrowing the _____ concept of "clearing,"
(a) Quaker.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Dianetics.
(d) Calvinist.

10. Who is living in the studio and offers to help Miller take care of his children following the breakup of his marriage?
(a) Walter Matthews.
(b) Wilbur Robinson.
(c) Wilson Winslow.
(d) Walter Winslow.

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

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

13. What denomination of preacher is Miller's favorite bootblack in Monterey?
(a) Presbyterian.
(b) Baptist.
(c) Methodist.
(d) Pentecostal.

14. Who is the octogenarian Miller often meets at the sulfur baths in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 5?
(a) Oden Wharton.
(b) Conrad Moricand.
(c) Emil White.
(d) Jean Wharton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does the Basque girl write to Miller for help?

2. Which author is a Russian at heart and cannot find a publisher for his novel, The Falling Asleep?

3. What is the title of Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 3, and refers to bedtime stories that Miller tells his children?

4. Miller writes that Jews and _____ are America's only truly selfless givers.

5. Miller gets detailed letters on bladder care from a man where?

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