Tropic of Capricorn Quiz 2
1. Henry Miller grew up in a(n) ________ family
- Italian-American
- Mexican-American
- French-American
- German-American
2. Henry Miller's middle name is
- Valentine
- Vach
- Valmont
- Vilmont
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- Summary and Analysis of Section II: “Things take place instantaneously” to “The frozen glass of the window cutting like a jackknife, clean and no remainder.”
- Summary and Analysis of Section III: “Life drifting by the show window” to “It gave me the feeling of the stupidity of the blood tie and of the love which is not spiritually imbued.”
- Summary and Analysis of Section IV: “I look back rapidly and I see myself again in California” to “I was not even a personal hard on.”
- Summary and Analysis of Section V: “It was about this time, adopting the pseudonym Samson Lackawanna, that I began my depradations” to “This is the only world you can inhabit, this tomb of the snake where darkness reigns.”
- Summary and Analysis of Section VI: “And suddenly for no reason at all, when I think of her returning to her nest, I remember Sunday mornings in the little old house near the cemetery” to “It makes you terribly quiet inside, makes you aware that the
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