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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What family's home is often mistaken for a cafe, so they accommodate by selling sandwiches?
(a) The White's.
(b) The Millers.
(c) The Muench's.
(d) The Whartons.

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

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

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

6. Miller asserts in Part 1, "The Oranges of the Millennium," that people fail to realize that life is what?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) In God's image.
(c) A dream.
(d) Serious.

7. Miller receives letters from Ethiopia and Cairo, recommending that he read who?
(a) Emil White.
(b) Restif de la Bretonne.
(c) Sir Godfrey Higgins.
(d) Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz.

8. Miller writes in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 7 that Americans worship _____ and tell others that they do not know how to live.
(a) Materialism.
(b) Oil.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Abundance.

9. 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 _______.
(a) Modern amenities.
(b) Things to come easy.
(c) Help from neighbors.
(d) Monetary gain.

10. What neighbor and benefactor of Miller's is trying to find herself in Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 7?
(a) Emily Wharton.
(b) Jean Wharton.
(c) Oden Wharton.
(d) Annette Rockefeller.

11. What would-be writer hopes to find the Cult of Sex and Anarchy?
(a) Ned.
(b) Ralph.
(c) Phil.
(d) Roger.

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

13. Hieronymus Bosch's The Millennium is the title of what?
(a) A song.
(b) A painting.
(c) A book.
(d) A poem.

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

15. In what year does Miller arrive in Big Sur?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1949.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miller writes that people need what as much as they ignore it?

2. Miller asserts that all has been said and done and all one can add is what?

3. What religion do people say Jean Wharton is?

4. Who is expelled from West Point and finishes a fine novel that remains unpublished when he moves to Big Sur, CA?

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

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