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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Beta scornfully realized, how could someone have power in Poland?
(a) Seize it by force.
(b) Follow the procedures established by the Polish government.
(c) Overcome the Nazis.
(d) Destroy all Polish underground resistance.

2. Aesthetic Ketman spreads because the citizens crave what aspect of daily life?
(a) Sameness.
(b) Strangeness.
(c) Similarity.
(d) Superficiality.

3. Why does the state take advantage of professional Ketman?
(a) It has other, more pressing concerns.
(b) The problem is minimal.
(c) It exploits the workers.
(d) It needs doctors and engineers.

4. The last time Milosz saw Beta, how did the unassuming poet look?
(a) He had become self-assured and thoroughly political.
(b) He hadn't changed.
(c) He had become even more afraid, following his time in the concentration camp.
(d) He had become an outspoken adversary of communism.

5. What happened when Beta's artistic talent moved to the furthest boundaries of communist dictates?
(a) Words and individual man lost all meaning.
(b) The words he wrote were the only things he knew.
(c) It could not be satisfied, and he left the party.
(d) Words could no longer move him to action.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Beta relates, when Greek prisoners cannot march because they are too weak, how are they first punished?

2. How do the inhabitants of communist countries appear?

3. How prevalent is National Ketman?

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

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

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