2. What is the title of Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 11?
(a) "The Millennium of Hieronymus Bosch."
(b) "Down the Trestle."
(c) "Testimonial in Ut-Mineur."
(d) "Visitors."

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

4. Who reserves two rooms in his new estate for the Millers?
(a) Jean Wharton.
(b) Conrad Moricand.
(c) Ephraim Doner.
(d) Eugene Pachutinsky.

5. A Dutch visitor upbraids Miller for clearing what instead of writing?
(a) His backyard.
(b) A field of brush.
(c) A septic tank.
(d) A forest.

6. From where does the Basque girl write to Miller for help?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Paris, France.
(c) San Francisco, CA.
(d) New York, NY.

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

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

9. Miller recalls being disciplined (thrashed) by his father how many times?
(a) Three times.
(b) Twice.
(c) Dozens of times.
(d) Once.

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

11. Who gives outdoor piano concerts to ward off poverty at Big Sur?
(a) Henry Miller.
(b) Conrad Moricand.
(c) Gerhart Muench.
(d) Emil White.

12. Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 9 opens with Miller borrowing the _____ concept of "clearing,"
(a) Quaker.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Calvinist.
(d) Dianetics.

13. Who is a gifted story teller and expert in literature who suffers writer's block in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 1?
(a) Mary.
(b) Ralph.
(c) Harvey.
(d) Henry.

14. In what year is Miller in Villa Seurat?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1945.

15. Which mystery writer provides research on the Essene cult?
(a) Agatha Christie.
(b) Lawrence Lipton.
(c) Restif de la Bretonne.
(d) Sir Godfrey Higgins.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miller writes that British correspondents are the most vapid, with the exception of poet Lawrence Durrell and the elderly but ever enthusiastic ______.

2. With whom does Miller go to see reproductions of Turner works?

3. What family's home is often mistaken for a cafe, so they accommodate by selling sandwiches?

4. Miller writes that in 19__ the U.S. tried to fix the world's problems, but had itself deteriorated.

5. How had Doner supported himself in southern Europe?

(see the answer keys)

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