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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri, Chapters 13-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many of the residents of Big Sur see what for a brief period of time?
(a) A sasquach.
(b) Shadows.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) UFOs.

2. Where does Miller describe his archives in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 8?
(a) Library of Congress.
(b) Columbia Library.
(c) N.Y.U. Library.
(d) U.C.L.A. Library.

3. Miller finds it maddening as an artist to be incapable of capturing what adequately?
(a) Light.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Life.
(d) Love.

4. Who is expelled from West Point and finishes a fine novel that remains unpublished when he moves to Big Sur, CA?
(a) Norman Mini.
(b) Niels Scharmosky.
(c) Conrad Moricand.
(d) Emil White.

5. How old is Miller's favorite young painter at Big Sur?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. One tourist visits Miller to spend hours looking through his what?

2. 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?

3. From where does the Basque girl write to Miller for help?

4. Who is the octogenarian Miller often meets at the sulfur baths in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 5?

5. Miller writes that people will do anything for ____, even piously chopping off heads in the French Revolution.

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