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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Beta the Disappointed Lover.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 4, as the Polish uprising fought the Nazis for control of Warsaw, what did the Red Army do?
(a) Waited in Moscow.
(b) Watched from across the river.
(c) Sided with the Nazis.
(d) Sent troops to help.

2. According to several examples from Eastern history, how is Ketman a way of living?
(a) Flaunting heresy.
(b) Remaining completely obedient.
(c) Appearing obedient while harboring heresy.
(d) Appearing obedient while exposing heresy in others.

3. Milosz compares the Method to what animal?
(a) An ox, strong enough to bear the weight of reality.
(b) A powerful bird whose wing is broken.
(c) A fox, wily enough to deceive those who are skeptical.
(d) A snake, for which the tail begins at any point.

4. Beta wrote poems characterized by what?
(a) Crying out to God for deliverance.
(b) Taking bitter joy in the despair of the poet's surroundings.
(c) Leaning on the poet's weak faith in an effort to flee death.
(d) Lack of faith and the facing of death as reality.

5. Milosz ends Chapter I with the question:
(a) What else could man ask for?
(b) How long until man accepts the party?
(c) How long must communism continue?
(d) What the devil does a man need?

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of Beta's first book?

2. What event did Alpha and Milosz narrowly miss one day as they were returning from the train station?

3. At a fairly young age, how did Beta die?

4. In light of Beta's poetry, how does Milosz treat the modern artist's potential?

5. Milosz explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?

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