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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 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Ralph.
(b) Harvey.
(c) Henry.
(d) Mary.

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

3. Who was Miller's childhood friend and a victim of poison gas in World War I?
(a) Eddie Carney.
(b) Phillip Simmons.
(c) Paul Burts.
(d) Jackie Ross.

4. A Basque girl visits Miller, freezing and starving, to ask his views on who?
(a) Einstein.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Kant.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Many of the residents of Big Sur see what for a brief period of time?

3. Who is expelled from West Point and finishes a fine novel that remains unpublished when he moves to Big Sur, CA?

4. What does Miller save and study to learn other painters' art?

5. What religion do people say Jean Wharton is?

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