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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If the weather is nice, Miller does what instead of writing?
(a) Goes to church.
(b) Paints.
(c) Jogs.
(d) Walks to town.

2. An amalgam of types, Moricand is above all a ______.
(a) Snake.
(b) Debbie Downer.
(c) Crab.
(d) Gloomy Gus.

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

4. In Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 13, Miller contemplates how little ___ debates on ending fighting accomplish.
(a) French.
(b) U.S.
(c) U.N.
(d) German.

5. Where is Moricand living when he meets Miller?
(a) Hotel Montedori.
(b) Hotel Paris.
(c) Hotel Bentley.
(d) Hotel Modial.

6. With whom is Miller constantly fighting in Part 3, "Paradise Lost"?
(a) Jean Wharton.
(b) Janina.
(c) Mary.
(d) Emil Wharton.

7. Miller writes that most of the world's woes stem from _____ human behavior.
(a) Genetic.
(b) Modifiable.
(c) Errant.
(d) Ingrained.

8. What gift does Moricand present to Miller in Part 3, "Paradise Lost," saying it had been in his family for generations?
(a) A pen.
(b) A locket.
(c) A brooch.
(d) A clock.

9. In the Epilogue, Miller is interrupted by neighbors needing help and household chores, including buckets of diapers to wash where?
(a) The ocean.
(b) The river.
(c) The sulfur baths.
(d) The stream.

10. Moricand holds that one does not "choose the ______."
(a) Sinful.
(b) Unchoosable.
(c) Unwise.
(d) Ungodly.

11. Miller reads what without prejudice in Part 3, "Paradise Lost"?
(a) Key to the Scriptures.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Percy Shelley.
(d) The Bible.

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

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

14. Miller finds, in the Epilogue, that working when is impossible?
(a) At dawn.
(b) At noon.
(c) In the daytime.
(d) At night.

15. Who leaves the obnoxious astrologer in Miller's care in Paris?
(a) Jean Wharton.
(b) Janina Miller.
(c) Elizabeth Miller.
(d) Anais Nin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miller writes that when patience fails, there is always what?

2. Miller writes that what is a healing process, in the Epilogue?

3. Who did Moricand work for during the war?

4. Whose maxim is it that genuine needs are always met?

5. Moricand refuses to teach who French, feeling that American children are undisciplined?

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