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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Delta, the Troubadour.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Metaphysical Ketman treat man's mind?
(a) He loses the need for metaphysical answers.
(b) He thinks rationally and materialistically.
(c) He thinks in terms of the present.
(d) He thinks religiously.

2. How prevalent is National Ketman?
(a) Limited to the upper circles of the party.
(b) Not of concern to the center.
(c) Limited to the people who have no power within the party.
(d) Widespread throughout communist society.

3. How does Milosz describe Delta's poetry?
(a) A chubby angel.
(b) A song played too quickly.
(c) An abomination.
(d) A kaleidoscope.

4. In order to kept his apartment and good political standing, the man practicing aesthetic Ketman is willing to do what?
(a) Promote the party's interests at all costs.
(b) Give up his first-born child.
(c) Make only the necessary sacrifices.
(d) Make any sacrifice or compromise.

5. As Beta relates, when Greek prisoners cannot march because they are too weak, how are they first punished?
(a) With death.
(b) With beatings.
(c) With sticks tied to their legs.
(d) With three days' hard labor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the inhabitants of communist countries appear?

2. What was the title of Delta's most unusual poem, which spoke in terms best understood in a dream?

3. As Beta scornfully realized, how could someone have power in Poland?

4. How much time did Beta spend in the concentration camp Auschwitz?

5. According to the center, contradictions ___________ in the minds of its citizens.

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