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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. The adventures of Chama take place where?
(a) New York.
(b) Italy.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Brazil.

4. 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) "B as in Baxter."
(b) "The City Mouse."
(c) "The Karma Series."
(d) "The Chama Serial."

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

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

7. What is the colony of artists referred to at Big Sur in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 2?
(a) The Anderson Creek Gang.
(b) The Anderson Street Gang.
(c) The Monterey Circle.
(d) The Big Sur Family.

8. Many of the residents of Big Sur see what for a brief period of time?
(a) UFOs.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) A sasquach.
(d) Shadows.

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

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

11. 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) Oil.
(b) Abundance.
(c) Materialism.
(d) Capitalism.

12. Where does Miller describe his archives in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 8?
(a) N.Y.U. Library.
(b) U.C.L.A. Library.
(c) Columbia Library.
(d) Library of Congress.

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

14. Where was Ephraim Doner born and raised?
(a) Vilna,
(b) France.
(c) Poland.
(d) Germany.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Since 1929, Miller has produced how many watercolors by Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 4?

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

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

4. Fledgling writers seek advice from Miller, but writing is a what to him?

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

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