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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to several examples from Eastern history, how is Ketman a way of living?
(a) Remaining completely obedient.
(b) Flaunting heresy.
(c) Appearing obedient while harboring heresy.
(d) Appearing obedient while exposing heresy in others.

2. Beta wrote poems characterized by what?
(a) Lack of faith and the facing of death as reality.
(b) Taking bitter joy in the despair of the poet's surroundings.
(c) Crying out to God for deliverance.
(d) Leaning on the poet's weak faith in an effort to flee death.

3. In the concentration camp, what kind of life does Beta lead?
(a) Hungry and miserable, but happy to be alive.
(b) Healthy and well-dressed, and brags about it.
(c) With experiences which he never talks about afterward.
(d) Healthy and well-dressed, but cannot escape his guilt.

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

5. In a weekly magazine, Delta published short theater scenes under what title?
(a) Green Goose.
(b) Falangist.
(c) Gray Goose.
(d) Solomon's Ball.

Short Answer Questions

1. How prevalent is National Ketman?

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

3. Taking joy that one's life occurs within the stream of life is what type of Ketman?

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

5. What was the title of Delta's most unusual poem, which spoke in terms best understood in a dream?

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