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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. While talking to Beker, who is about to be burned at the crematorium because he is too weak to work, what is Beta's attitude?
(a) Calm and detached.
(b) Malicious.
(c) Fearful of his own life.
(d) Agitated and sad.

2. In Chapter 4, who is Alpha, the Moralist?
(a) A well-known prose writer not personally known to Milosz.
(b) A well-known prose writer, a good friend of Milosz.
(c) A well-known poet, a good friend of Milosz.
(d) A little-known prose writer, a good friend of Milosz.

3. In Witkeiwicz's novel, if man is attuned to the absurd, what does he see?
(a) People's individual lives are meaningless.
(b) His own life is worthless.
(c) The state is meaningless.
(d) There is no hope of salvation, either earthly or heavenly.

4. Milosz uses an example from Flaubert's writing to point out one problem with the progression of Eastern communism:
(a) The patient struggles against the cure.
(b) Education cannot keep later generations faithful to communist ideals.
(c) There are not enough dedicated leaders.
(d) The assimilation process has happened too quickly.

5. Milosz compares the American law system to what image?
(a) A man drowning at sea.
(b) People in a raft paddling different directions.
(c) A man alone on a log raft.
(d) A powerful ship.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can the relationship between Gamma and the author be described?

2. In the concentration camp, what kind of life does Beta lead?

3. In Chapter 4, once the Nazis took over a country, how did they treat the printing presses?

4. How did Delta return to his wife in Poland?

5. The last time Milosz saw Beta, how did the unassuming poet look?

(see the answer key)

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