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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the title of Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 3, and refers to bedtime stories that Miller tells his children?
(a) "The Chama Serial."
(b) "The Karma Series."
(c) "The City Mouse."
(d) "B as in Baxter."

3. Miller receives letters from Ethiopia and Cairo, recommending that he read who?
(a) Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz.
(b) Restif de la Bretonne.
(c) Emil White.
(d) Sir Godfrey Higgins.

4. Which mystery writer provides research on the Essene cult?
(a) Agatha Christie.
(b) Sir Godfrey Higgins.
(c) Restif de la Bretonne.
(d) Lawrence Lipton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the animals and plants in Bosch's paintings share a magic _____.

2. What would-be writer hopes to find the Cult of Sex and Anarchy?

3. Who reserves two rooms in his new estate for the Millers?

4. What does Miller find to be a constant nuisance in the beginning of the narrative?

5. Miller finds it maddening as an artist to be incapable of capturing what adequately?

Short Essay Questions

1. What artists and writers does Miller describe living within the Big Sur community in Part 2, Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri, Chapter 2? How do they support themselves?

2. How does Miller describe "Karma" or balance in "The Part of Fortune"?

3. What is Harvey's affliction and what does Miller advise to him in Part 2, Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri, Chapter 1?

4. What is the main question posed in Part 2, Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri, Chapter 10? Where does Miller gain insight in this subject?

5. Who does Miller describe in Part 2, Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri, Chapter 7? How is this individual similar to Miller?

6. Miller compares Wharton's need to help others with the United States in Part 2, Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri, Chapter 7. How?

7. What does Miller write of his correspondents in Part 2, Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri, Chapter 8?

8. Who does Miller describe meeting in Part 2, Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri, Chapter 5 at the sulfur baths?

9. What does Miller assert as signs of the "system breaking down" in Part 1, "The Oranges of the Millennium"?

10. How does Miller describe the plants and animals in Hieronymus Bosch's The Millennium? How does this relate to Big Sur?

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