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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Paradise Lost, pgs. 309-349.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Miller is sometimes surprised by revelations of household tragedies too great to describe, even by who, whose domestic life is a sad joke?
(a) Chekhov.
(b) James.
(c) Conrad.
(d) Tolstoy.

2. Who brings fine food, drink, and cigars, and Moricand partakes heartily while preparing to analyze him?
(a) Andrew Warner.
(b) Leon Shamroy.
(c) Maxwell Ronald.
(d) Antoine Renoult.

3. One tourist visits Miller to spend hours looking through his what?
(a) Books.
(b) Watercolors.
(c) Oil paintings.
(d) Poems.

4. Who does Miller state carries self-sufficiency to the extreme?
(a) Hudson Kimbell.
(b) Emil White.
(c) Oden Wharton.
(d) Howard Welch.

5. Miller writes that Big Sur feels naked and vulnerable, an apt setting for what?
(a) Shakespearean tragedies.
(b) Melodramas.
(c) Roman tragedies.
(d) Greek tragedies.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year is Miller in Villa Seurat?

2. Who was Miller's childhood friend and a victim of poison gas in World War I?

3. Who gives outdoor piano concerts to ward off poverty at Big Sur?

4. Who typifies the lone-American type, filled with the spirit of the wilderness, according to Miller?

5. What astrological sign is Henry Miller?

(see the answer key)

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