Black Spring Quizzes

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

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

dull

being free

drama
2 Who does Miller say are his real heroes?
The boys of the street

His parents

The soldiers

The whores
3 What was a notable source of employment?
The shops

The prisons

The ironworks

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

minister

doctor

criminal
5 What did Miller dream of when he was young?
Making a life in Brooklyn

Getting far away

Marrying and having kids

Being rich
6 What New York icon does Miller mention in the first section?
The Brooklyn Bridge

The Woolworth Building

Central Park

The Library
7 Life as an adult is characterized by ___?
unity

self-awareness

tragedy

fragmentation
8 Who is Miller's favorite author?
Defoe

Swift

Dostoevsky

Thackeray
9 To where does Miller move?
Dresden

Paris

London

Barcelona
10 What creature does Miller compare himself to?
A lion

A lizard

A crab

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

Mexico

Germany

France
12 What does Miller enjoy doing publicly in Paris?
Having sex

Drinking

Urinating

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

Robinson Crusoe

Raskolnikov

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

Rousseau

Beethoven

Napolen
15 What did Miller and his friends like to do at recess?
Read in the bathroom

Assault the girls

Terrorize other children

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 ___?
text

painting

sculpture

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

horse

cat

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

a woman

a volcano

a man
21 Miller's painting includes all the following except ___?
cemetery gates

a cross

diagonal lines

a gondola
22 Whom is Miller inspired by?
The elderly

Insane asylum inmates

Children

Prisoners
23 Miller's final work is all the following except ___?
pressed flat

washed off

scrubbed down

left out in the sun
24 Which famous artist's work did Miller admire?
van Gogh

Millet

Manet

Turner
25 The painting in the Bowery was of ___?
cockroaches

bedbugs

lice

rats

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