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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. Who has suffered much from the correction of physical defects but is a miniature Ramakrishna, thankful for everything?
(a) Simon.
(b) Peter.
(c) Paul.
(d) Butch.

2. Where does Miller send Chama when he runs out of stories in an urban setting?
(a) Paris.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Italy.
(d) New Mexico.

3. Where does the Basque girl go after leaving Big Sur?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) Duck Creek, MT.
(c) San Francisco, CA.
(d) New York, NY.

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

5. A brilliant young French-Canadian ponders his role in life in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 9, quoting Joseph Delteil and Chesterton on who?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Odets.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Twain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What neighbor and benefactor of Miller's is trying to find herself in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 7?

2. A Basque girl visits Miller, freezing and starving, to ask his views on who?

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. Who is expelled from West Point and finishes a fine novel that remains unpublished when he moves to Big Sur, CA?

5. Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 9 opens with Miller borrowing the _____ concept of "clearing,"

Short Essay Questions

1. How had Ephraim Doner ended up in Europe?

2. How does Miller describe Ephraim Doner in "Testimonial in Ut-Mineur"?

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

4. What does Miller write of Dianetics in Part 2, Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri, Chapter 9? What is Dianetics?

5. What is "The Charma Serial" about?

6. 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?

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

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

9. How has the population of children changed in Miller's time at Big Sur? Who are his favorites?

10. What does Miller write of the Lopez family and their children? Who does he contrast this family with?

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