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

2. What lessens the idealism of Big Sur as a place for Miller to write?
(a) Children.
(b) Visitors.
(c) Isolation.
(d) Weather.

3. What can improve bad painting, according to Miller?
(a) Good framing.
(b) Good lighting.
(c) Good hanging.
(d) Good subject.

4. What is the colony of artists referred to at Big Sur in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 2?
(a) The Big Sur Family.
(b) The Anderson Street Gang.
(c) The Anderson Creek Gang.
(d) The Monterey Circle.

5. What would-be writer hopes to find the Cult of Sex and Anarchy?
(a) Ned.
(b) Ralph.
(c) Roger.
(d) Phil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hieronymus Bosch's most widely known triptych?

2. What book of Miller's was banned in the United States?

3. Miller writes that "one must find new ways of looking at things to see ______ undiminished by creation's flaws."

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

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