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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. Moricand finds American meals and what to be insufficient?
(a) Pasta.
(b) Liquor.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Cheese.

2. What is the family's name who keeps watch over the octogenarian from the sulfur baths?
(a) White.
(b) Eames.
(c) Dodson.
(d) Wharton.

3. Miller writes that if Jesus were to come back to earth, he would more likely sell what than send others off to die in war?
(a) Bibles.
(b) Dictionaries.
(c) Magazines.
(d) Vacuums.

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

5. Miller quotes a long passage from whose Travel Diary about the perfection of Japanese women and how Western women fail to imitate them?
(a) Myanak's.
(b) Walton's.
(c) Conrad's.
(d) Keyserling's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What neighbor and benefactor of Miller's is trying to find herself in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 7?

2. An amalgam of types, Moricand is above all a ______.

3. Miller writes in Part 1, "The Oranges of the Millennium," that he who comes to Big Sur must come with capable hands, a strong heart, and a sense of humor, and expect no _______.

4. What lessens the idealism of Big Sur as a place for Miller to write?

5. Miller writes in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 10 that normal children are natural what?

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