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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The Lesson of the Baltics.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which Ketman asserts that men do not know how to rule themselves or properly distribute goods?
(a) Ethical Ketman.
(b) Sceptical Ketman.
(c) The Ketman of revolutionary purity.
(d) Metaphysical Ketman.

3. Milosz illustrates Ketman with the example of what person?
(a) A Shiite theologian.
(b) A Muslim.
(c) An average housewife.
(d) A communist.

4. How did Gamma express his anti-Semitic views?
(a) To anyone who would listen.
(b) Violently.
(c) Only to the people he trusted.
(d) Calmly.

5. When Milosz received a letter from a small family in Siberia, what was in the letter?
(a) A plea for rescue.
(b) An appalling account of living in drudgery.
(c) The money they'd scraped together to buy their freedom.
(d) An acrostic reading "Eternal Slave."

Short Answer Questions

1. Catholic Communists gradually lose everything except what aspect?

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

3. In Witkiewicz's novel, the characters ultimately become:

4. In cycles that lasted several days, what would Delta do?

5. As the Polish fought the Germans for control of Warsaw near the end of the war, how did a few people manage to survive?

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