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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After being captured as a Polish soldier, what happened to Delta?
(a) Spent five years as a Russian prisoner.
(b) Was released because he was too weak to work.
(c) Was conscripted as a Russian soldier.
(d) Spent five years in a German labor camp.

2. The "accidental unmaskings of Ketman," Chapter 3, are called _________ .
(a) Derivations.
(b) Deviations.
(c) Hallucinations.
(d) Perpetuations.

3. Because he believed in earthly salvation, what did Beta argue?
(a) Only man can bring about his own happiness.
(b) Anyone opposing mankind's happiness is evil.
(c) Promises of heavenly salvation are false.
(d) History has no force in man's present struggles.

4. Why did Beta's writing assert that communism was salvation?
(a) Capitalism could not provide for society's needs.
(b) Man would not think for himself.
(c) Man was too weak to save himself.
(d) Capitalism led to Hitlerism.

5. Citizens of communist countries become adept in what skill, according to Milosz?
(a) Reasoning.
(b) Persuading.
(c) Acting.
(d) Imitating.

Short Answer Questions

1. Often when Milosz sees women walking through the streets of Paris, what does he remember?

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

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

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

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

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