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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hieronymus Bosch's most widely known triptych?
(a) Venus.
(b) The Cave of Pythagorus.
(c) The Garden of Earthly Delights.
(d) The Three Marys.

2. Where did Henry Miller grow up?
(a) Brooklyn, NY.
(b) Big Sur, CA.
(c) Queens, NY.
(d) San Francisco, CA.

3. What does Miller find to be a constant nuisance in the beginning of the narrative?
(a) Ex-wives.
(b) Neighborhood dogs.
(c) Children.
(d) Infatuated fans.

4. The Epilogue opens by describing three-day-a-week mail service by who?
(a) Mike.
(b) Jim.
(c) Jake.
(d) Bill.

5. Miller finds it maddening as an artist to be incapable of capturing what adequately?
(a) Life.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Light.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who paints Miller's portrait as he is coming out of depression following his divorce?

3. Wharton floats, radiantly, into Miller's garden with a lantern and what in Part 3, "Paradise Lost"?

4. The adventures of Chama take place where?

5. Where does Miller describe his archives in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 8?

(see the answer key)

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