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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the title of Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 11?
(a) "Testimonial in Ut-Mineur."
(b) "The Millennium of Hieronymus Bosch."
(c) "Visitors."
(d) "Down the Trestle."

3. 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.

4. Miller writes that "one must find new ways of looking at things to see ______ undiminished by creation's flaws."
(a) Death.
(b) Paradise.
(c) Life.
(d) Earth.

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

6. How old is Miller's favorite young painter at Big Sur?
(a) Seven.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

7. Miller writes that Jews and _____ are America's only truly selfless givers.
(a) Indians.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Arabs.
(d) Goys.

8. Who penned The Keys to the Apocalypse?
(a) Charlotte Bronte.
(b) Sir Godfrey Higgins.
(c) Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz.
(d) Emil White.

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

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

11. 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 _______.
(a) Help from neighbors.
(b) Monetary gain.
(c) Modern amenities.
(d) Things to come easy.

12. Miller writes that Big Sur feels naked and vulnerable, an apt setting for what?
(a) Shakespearean tragedies.
(b) Greek tragedies.
(c) Melodramas.
(d) Roman tragedies.

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

14. What does Miller do when his wife and children disappear and he has no means of communication?
(a) Knits.
(b) Prays.
(c) Writes.
(d) Sings.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where does Miller send Chama when he runs out of stories in an urban setting?

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