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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 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which author is a Russian at heart and cannot find a publisher for his novel, The Falling Asleep?
(a) Conrad Moricand.
(b) Jake Kenney.
(c) Niels Scharmosky.
(d) Emil White.

2. Which Big Sur resident is a Dresden, Germany-born pianist, composer, and musical scholar?
(a) Ralph.
(b) Gerhart Meunch.
(c) Norman Mini.
(d) Gilbert Neiman.

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

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

5. Miller asserts that few city dwellers can stand solitude, but communities built on _____ and detachment are inevitable in this destructive world.
(a) Evolution.
(b) Benevolence.
(c) Religion.
(d) Simplification.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Miller go to see reproductions of Turner works?

2. What does Miller use to wrap books in to send to friends?

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

4. Hieronymus Bosch's The Millennium is the title of what?

5. Fledgling writers seek advice from Miller, but writing is a what to him?

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