Black Spring Quizzes

Black Spring “The Fourteenth Ward,” “The Third or Fourth Day of Spring,” “A Saturday Afternoon,” “The Angel is My Watermark!”

By Kristen Osborne-Bartucca · Last reviewed July 22, 2019

1 Miller says the street is all the following except ___?

drama

being free

dream

dull
2 Who does Miller say are his real heroes?

The soldiers

His parents

The whores

The boys of the street
3 What was a notable source of employment?

The shops

The ironworks

The docks

The prisons
4 Rob Ramsay's father was a/an ___?

minister

doctor

criminal

streetsweeper
5 What did Miller dream of when he was young?

Getting far away

Being rich

Marrying and having kids

Making a life in Brooklyn
6 What New York icon does Miller mention in the first section?

The Woolworth Building

The Brooklyn Bridge

The Library

Central Park
7 Life as an adult is characterized by ___?

tragedy

self-awareness

unity

fragmentation
8 Who is Miller's favorite author?

Defoe

Swift

Thackeray

Dostoevsky
9 To where does Miller move?

Paris

Dresden

London

Barcelona
10 What creature does Miller compare himself to?

A lion

A crab

A snake

A lizard
11 What country does Miller tout as lovely and beautiful and trouble-free?

Mexico

France

Germany

England
12 What does Miller enjoy doing publicly in Paris?

Urinating

Smoking

Having sex

Drinking
13 What literary character does Miller say represents a pre-Christian, un-Anglo-Saxon time?

Gulliver

Robinson Crusoe

Oedipus

Raskolnikov
14 Miller's examples of men who cannot be happy, who are no longer able to be desert isles, include all the following except ___?

Napolen

Beethoven

Rabelais

Rousseau
15 What did Miller and his friends like to do at recess?

Assault the girls

Terrorize other children

Read in the bathroom

Play outside
16 What was “created by a race of bone-crushers”?

The Parthenon

The Greek plays

The King James Bible

The Koran
17 In the abandoned Institute of Music and other buildings, Miller thinks of what they once housed?

Criminals

Whores

Children

Catholics
18 Miller's first attempted masterpiece is a/an ___?

sculpture

painting

text

autobiography
19 The main animal in Miller's piece is a/an ___?

horse

cat

dog

pig
20 Miller's painting includes all the following except ___?

a woman

a bridge

a man

a volcano
21 Miller's painting includes all the following except ___?

diagonal lines

cemetery gates

a gondola

a cross
22 Whom is Miller inspired by?

Insane asylum inmates

The elderly

Prisoners

Children
23 Miller's final work is all the following except ___?

pressed flat

scrubbed down

left out in the sun

washed off
24 Which famous artist's work did Miller admire?

Manet

van Gogh

Turner

Millet
25 The painting in the Bowery was of ___?

bedbugs

rats

cockroaches

lice

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