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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hieronymus Bosch's The Millennium is the title of what?
(a) A painting.
(b) A book.
(c) A poem.
(d) A song.

2. How many of the artists who come through Big Sur, in Miller's time there, are truly talented, according to Miller?
(a) 50.
(b) 12.
(c) 100.
(d) 20.

3. A Dutch visitor upbraids Miller for clearing what instead of writing?
(a) A septic tank.
(b) A field of brush.
(c) His backyard.
(d) A forest.

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

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

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

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

8. Who is a gifted story teller and expert in literature who suffers writer's block in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 1?
(a) Mary.
(b) Harvey.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Henry.

9. In what year does Miller arrive in Big Sur?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1935.

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

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) In God's image.
(d) A dream.

12. Who begins a yearlong yarn about a superman-like character named Inch Connecticut?
(a) Paul Rink.
(b) Henry Miller.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Conrad Moricand.

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

14. Who reserves two rooms in his new estate for the Millers?
(a) Eugene Pachutinsky.
(b) Jean Wharton.
(c) Ephraim Doner.
(d) Conrad Moricand.

15. Miller gets detailed letters on bladder care from a man where?
(a) In a nursing home.
(b) In prison.
(c) In an asylum.
(d) In New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who operates the upscale Nepenthe Restaurant and let their five children run wild without thought of discipline?

2. Who paints Miller's portrait as he is coming out of depression following his divorce?

3. Where did Henry Miller grow up?

4. Almost how many artists of all sorts come through Big Sur in Henry Miller's twelve years there?

5. Miller writes that the local folk in Big Sur have embraced the healing ambiance and discovered how to live in peace, _____, and community.

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