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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What view of Poland's past did Delta's poetry present?
(a) The past provided an alternative to communism.
(b) The past was close to dying out.
(c) The past held no hope of peace or rest.
(d) The past had the power to save her people from communism.

2. Why did Delta begin to write violently anti-Semitic poems?
(a) He cared deeply about the political change going on around him.
(b) He had begun to think along those lines.
(c) He cared more about his audience than about the content.
(d) The Communist Party commanded him to write them.

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

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

5. In order to kept his apartment and good political standing, the man practicing aesthetic Ketman is willing to do what?
(a) Make any sacrifice or compromise.
(b) Promote the party's interests at all costs.
(c) Give up his first-born child.
(d) Make only the necessary sacrifices.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Ketman of revolutionary purity holds that a tyrant's reign may be justified in what circumstances?

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

3. How was Delta's cheerful poetry treated?

4. Citizens of communist countries become adept in what skill, according to Milosz?

5. When do Beta's stories show that people are good?

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