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

2. Who penned The Keys to the Apocalypse?
(a) Sir Godfrey Higgins.
(b) Charlotte Bronte.
(c) Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz.
(d) Emil White.

3. When had Miller and Doner met in France?
(a) 1941/42.
(b) 1925/26.
(c) 1935/36.
(d) 1931/32.

4. Who begins a yearlong yarn about a superman-like character named Inch Connecticut?
(a) Conrad Moricand.
(b) Ralph.
(c) Paul Rink.
(d) Henry Miller.

5. Who does Miller state carries self-sufficiency to the extreme?
(a) Hudson Kimbell.
(b) Emil White.
(c) Oden Wharton.
(d) Howard Welch.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Miller asserts that Americans enjoy the highest standard of living but spend more on fighting what than curing serious diseases?

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

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

5. Miller is sometimes surprised by revelations of household tragedies too great to describe, even by who, whose domestic life is a sad joke?

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