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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 believes that young writers must learn by personal experience and lacks both the energy and knowledge to do what?
(a) Refer publishers.
(b) Evaluate manuscripts.
(c) Evaluate students.
(d) Teach.

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

3. Moricand detests the Republic and seems to have had prior lives in ancient Alexandria and where else?
(a) Rome.
(b) Britain.
(c) Greece.
(d) Persia.

4. Whose maxim is it that genuine needs are always met?
(a) Conrad Moricand's.
(b) Jean Wharton's.
(c) Anais Nin's.
(d) Emil White's.

5. Miller states that monkeys picking one another's fleas accomplish more than what?
(a) Children.
(b) Women.
(c) Diplomacy.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who books passage by sea and air for Moricand, but each time he fails to show up?

2. In the Epilogue, Miller is interrupted by neighbors needing help and household chores, including buckets of diapers to wash where?

3. Miller questions that if Jesus were to come back again, people might do what to him?

4. Where does Moricand move after leaving Big Sur?

5. Where does Moricand write that he is living in 1947?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Moricand's philosophy on life? Does Miller agree or disagree?

2. What is Miller's intention to the reader in writing the Epilogue?

3. What criticisms does Miller assert of American values in Part 2, Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri, Chapter 15?

4. How does Miller describe his walk home from the sulfur baths in the Epilogue?

5. What does Miller comment upon regarding genuine needs in Part 2, Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri, Chapter 13?

6. How does Miller describe Slade's Springs in the text?

7. How does Miller learn of Moricand's death?

8. What is Miller's wife's reaction to Conrad Moricand? How does Moricand's first impression fade?

9. What does Miller note of artistic grants in Part 2, Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri, Chapter 15?

10. What fineries does Moricand insist upon? How does Miller react to Moricand's things?

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