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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. Miller writes that people need what as much as they ignore it?
(a) Love.
(b) Family.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Art.

2. What family's home is often mistaken for a cafe, so they accommodate by selling sandwiches?
(a) The Whartons.
(b) The White's.
(c) The Millers.
(d) The Muench's.

3. 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.

4. Where did Henry Miller grow up?
(a) Big Sur, CA.
(b) Queens, NY.
(c) San Francisco, CA.
(d) Brooklyn, NY.

5. Fledgling writers seek advice from Miller, but writing is a what to him?
(a) Gift.
(b) Calvary.
(c) Secret.
(d) Danger.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the colony of artists referred to at Big Sur in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 2?

3. Miller asserts that few city dwellers can stand solitude, but communities built on _____ and detachment are inevitable in this destructive world.

4. Who is a gifted story teller and expert in literature who suffers writer's block in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 1?

5. All of the animals and plants in Bosch's paintings share a magic _____.

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