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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Miller arrange to take Moricand to the hospital daily in Part 3, "Paradise Lost,?
(a) Emil White.
(b) Andrew Fillmore.
(c) Ellwood Graham.
(d) Sarah Anderson.

2. Moricand detests the Republic and seems to have had prior lives in ancient Alexandria and where else?
(a) Rome.
(b) Persia.
(c) Greece.
(d) Britain.

3. Part 3, "Paradise Lost," refers to a poem by whom?
(a) Dante.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) John Milton.
(d) Lord Byron.

4. Moricand demands a deposit of how much money in his Paris account from Miller?
(a) $1,000.
(b) $2,000.
(c) $3,000.
(d) $500.

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

6. Miller finds, in the Epilogue, that working when is impossible?
(a) At noon.
(b) At night.
(c) In the daytime.
(d) At dawn.

7. Who typifies the lone-American type, filled with the spirit of the wilderness, according to Miller?
(a) Oden Wharton.
(b) Norman Rockwell.
(c) Emil White.
(d) Howard Welch.

8. Who informs Moricand that he may not work and comes after Miller, who is legally responsible for him?
(a) The German Consulate.
(b) The British Consulate.
(c) The French Consulate.
(d) The Swiss Consulate.

9. In Part 2, "Peace and Solitude: a Potpourri," Chapter 13, Miller contemplates how little ___ debates on ending fighting accomplish.
(a) German.
(b) U.N.
(c) French.
(d) U.S.

10. Moricand speaks in what language?
(a) French.
(b) Portugese.
(c) Italian.
(d) German.

11. Having tasted peace and solitude, Miller blesses what in the Epilogue?
(a) Dreamers.
(b) All creation.
(c) Writers.
(d) Women.

12. Moricand gives Miller a precious copy of what?
(a) Finnegan's Wake.
(b) Balzac's Seraphita.
(c) Balzac's Metamorphosis.
(d) Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.

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

14. Miller writes that what is a healing process, in the Epilogue?
(a) Raising children.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Country life.
(d) Art.

15. Miller asserts that fanatics utter profound "second-hand ____" and sound ridiculous demonstrating them through trivia.
(a) Truths.
(b) Falsehoods.
(c) Lies.
(d) Utterances.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moricand declare life to be?

2. Who did Moricand work for during the war?

3. Miller writes in the Epilogue that he appreciates feedback and gifts, but asks that fans show appreciation by what?

4. Where is Moricand living when he meets Miller?

5. Miller talks his friends into commissioning what from Moricand and eventually invents customers, for whom he pays?

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