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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do Beta's stories show that people are good?
(a) Inherently.
(b) When life has meaning.
(c) Only while acting within civilization.
(d) Only when it directly benefits them.

2. When Delta's writing no longer pleased the party, what happened?
(a) Publishers were instructed not to print his work.
(b) Publishers were instructed to print only the work that showed he had reformed.
(c) He was forced to print only in underground papers.
(d) He was exiled to Siberia for three years in a labor camp.

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

4. In a communist country, what is perhaps the best way to ensure one's safety?
(a) To keep one's opinions quiet.
(b) To become known as a spy.
(c) To join with like-minded people.
(d) To loudly proclaim Russia's pre-eminence.

5. Within communist countries, it is not important what a man says but:
(a) How he says it.
(b) What he wanted to say.
(c) Who hears him.
(d) How it is received.

Short Answer Questions

1. Milosz illustrates Ketman with the example of what person?

2. How does Milosz describe Delta's poetry?

3. Fifty years of re-education within the party can change entire nations so that they become what?

4. How does Metaphysical Ketman treat man's mind?

5. Beta remained bitter because he was unable to see what?

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