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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the family's name who keeps watch over the octogenarian from the sulfur baths?
(a) Eames.
(b) White.
(c) Wharton.
(d) Dodson.

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

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

4. Who has suffered much from the correction of physical defects but is a miniature Ramakrishna, thankful for everything?
(a) Simon.
(b) Butch.
(c) Paul.
(d) Peter.

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

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

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

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 Houghland.
(c) Peter Eames.
(d) Butch Eames.

9. Miller writes that people need what as much as they ignore it?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Love.
(c) Art.
(d) Family.

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

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

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 Who is expelled from West Point and finishes a fine novel that remains unpublished when he moves to Big Sur, CA?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

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

14. What neighbor and benefactor of Miller's is trying to find herself in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 7?
(a) Jean Wharton.
(b) Oden Wharton.
(c) Emily Wharton.
(d) Annette Rockefeller.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Miller writes that Big Sur feels naked and vulnerable, an apt setting for what?

3. What religion do people say Jean Wharton is?

4. What denomination of preacher is Miller's favorite bootblack in Monterey?

5. Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 9 opens with Miller borrowing the _____ concept of "clearing,"

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