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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Paradise Lost, pgs. 275-309.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book of Miller's was banned in the United States?
(a) Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch.
(b) Tropic of Cancer.
(c) Black Spring.
(d) Crazy Cook.

2. In what year does Miller arrive in Big Sur?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1949.

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

4. Miller writes that "one must find new ways of looking at things to see ______ undiminished by creation's flaws."
(a) Life.
(b) Paradise.
(c) Death.
(d) Earth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What gift does Moricand present to Miller in Part 3, "Paradise Lost," saying it had been in his family for generations?

2. Miller writes that when patience fails, there is always what?

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

4. How many of the artists who come through Big Sur, in Miller's time there, are truly talented, according to Miller?

5. Miller states that well-behaved children rarely grow into what kind of adults?

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