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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 15, Miller writes that unless one knows where one is going, ____ leads there.
(a) The last road.
(b) No road.
(c) The wrong road.
(d) Any road.

2. What does Moricand declare life to be?
(a) A Calvary.
(b) A Karmic eden.
(c) A heaven.
(d) A steady climb.

3. Miller asserts that Americans enjoy the highest standard of living but spend more on fighting what than curing serious diseases?
(a) Odors.
(b) Europeans.
(c) Tax wars.
(d) Microbes.

4. Miller must refrain from admiring any belonging of Moricand's, lest he insist on what?
(a) He take it.
(b) He sell it.
(c) He destroy it.
(d) He borrow it.

5. Astrology, like what, Miller declares, has its origins in humans' loss of wholeness?
(a) Religion.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Tarot.

6. Who does Miller arrange to take Moricand to the hospital daily in Part 3, "Paradise Lost,?
(a) Emil White.
(b) Ellwood Graham.
(c) Sarah Anderson.
(d) Andrew Fillmore.

7. Miller writes in Part 3, "Paradise Lost," "Freedom implies ____."
(a) Choice.
(b) Nationality.
(c) Truth.
(d) Justice.

8. Miller writes that people will do anything for ____, even piously chopping off heads in the French Revolution.
(a) Religion.
(b) Faith.
(c) Money.
(d) Love.

9. Where does Moricand state he wants to move in Part 3, "Paradise Lost," as he misses city life?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) New York.
(d) San Francisco.

10. Moricand speaks in what language?
(a) German.
(b) French.
(c) Portugese.
(d) Italian.

11. What is the last plate in The Millennium of Hieronymus Bosch?
(a) "The Sky of the Dawn."
(b) "The Cave of Pythagoras."
(c) "The Snake and the Apple."
(d) "The Garden of Earthly Delights."

12. Where does Moricand write that he is living in 1947?
(a) France.
(b) England.
(c) Norway.
(d) Switzerland.

13. Where does Miller take Moricand to the hospital in Part 3, "Paradise Lost"?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Paris.
(c) Salinas.
(d) San Francisco.

14. Wharton floats, radiantly, into Miller's garden with a lantern and what in Part 3, "Paradise Lost"?
(a) Wings.
(b) Necklace.
(c) Book.
(d) Feather.

15. What does Moricand assert gives character and strength?
(a) Willpower.
(b) Stories.
(c) Money.
(d) Suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who befriends Moricand and advises that Miller look at Moricand's portfolio of erotic drawings?

2. In the Epilogue, Miller is interrupted by neighbors needing help and household chores, including buckets of diapers to wash where?

3. Who typifies the lone-American type, filled with the spirit of the wilderness, according to Miller?

4. Who leaves the obnoxious astrologer in Miller's care in Paris?

5. If the weather is nice, Miller does what instead of writing?

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