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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. What denomination of preacher is Miller's favorite bootblack in Monterey?
(a) Presbyterian.
(b) Pentecostal.
(c) Methodist.
(d) Baptist.

2. How many of the artists who come through Big Sur, in Miller's time there, are truly talented, according to Miller?
(a) 12.
(b) 50.
(c) 100.
(d) 20.

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

4. Wharton has spent much time and effort helping people see positives in negatives, but most people live how?
(a) Myopically.
(b) Fearfully.
(c) Artistically.
(d) Spontaneously.

5. Who is the author of Big Sur Guide?
(a) Jean Wharton.
(b) Henry Miller.
(c) Emil White.
(d) Conrad Moricand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which family at Big Sur hails from Mexico and embodies the virtues that Americans most undervalue, according to Miller?

2. What is the last plate in The Millennium of Hieronymus Bosch?

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

4. Who is Miller's favorite of the child painters in Big Sur?

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

(see the answer key)

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