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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. What does Miller use to wrap books in to send to friends?
(a) Corn husks.
(b) Newspaper articles.
(c) Book manuscripts.
(d) Failed paintings.

2. Who is Miller's favorite of the child painters in Big Sur?
(a) Butch Eames.
(b) Timmy Conway.
(c) Brian Cooper.
(d) Tasha Doner.

3. What is the colony of artists referred to at Big Sur in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 2?
(a) The Big Sur Family.
(b) The Anderson Street Gang.
(c) The Monterey Circle.
(d) The Anderson Creek Gang.

4. Miller writes that British correspondents are the most vapid, with the exception of poet Lawrence Durrell and the elderly but ever enthusiastic ______.
(a) Sir Walter Scott.
(b) Brant Brandon.
(c) John Cowper Powys.
(d) William Keys.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which mystery writer provides research on the Essene cult?

2. What does Miller save and study to learn other painters' art?

3. Who is the author of The Thirteen Crucified Saviours?

4. What is the title of Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 11?

5. Which child is a Miller favorite, gentle, silent, and thankful for everything, probably a result of the torments he has endured having birth defects corrected?

Short Essay Questions

1. What family lives in the center of Big Sur's community? Where in the text does Miller describe this family and others?

2. Who helps Miller with his children following his divorce from Janina? What is the outcome?

3. What does Miller write in Part 1, "The Oranges of the Millennium", in describing the community of Big Sur?

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

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

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

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

8. How had Ephraim Doner ended up in Europe?

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

10. How does Miller stay in touch with the outside world, according to his depiction in Part 1, The Oranges of the Millennium?

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