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

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

3. A Basque girl visits Miller, freezing and starving, to ask his views on who?
(a) Kant.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Einstein.

4. Who is the octogenarian Miller often meets at the sulfur baths in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 5?
(a) Conrad Moricand.
(b) Jean Wharton.
(c) Emil White.
(d) Oden Wharton.

5. Who is the author of The Stranger in Big Sur?
(a) Jack Kerouac.
(b) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(c) Lillian Bos Ross.
(d) Henry Miller.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Miller describe his archives in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 8?

2. What book of Miller's was banned in the United States?

3. Who operates the upscale Nepenthe Restaurant and let their five children run wild without thought of discipline?

4. Who has suffered much from the correction of physical defects but is a miniature Ramakrishna, thankful for everything?

5. From whom does Miller learn much about painting, including having fun?

Short Essay Questions

1. How had Ephraim Doner ended up in Europe?

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

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

4. Miller writes commentary in Part 1, The Oranges of the Millennium, examining the American Dream. What are his major points?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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