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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Defining good and evil outside of party interests is what type of Ketman?
(a) Aesthetic Ketman.
(b) Ethical Ketman.
(c) Sceptical Ketman.
(d) Metaphysical Ketman.

2. After two years, Delta returned again to favor, and how did his future look?
(a) He could be assured that it will last.
(b) He was given a ten-year contract.
(c) He could not be assured that it will last.
(d) He was returned only for the translation of a Shakespeare poem.

3. The Ketman of revolutionary purity holds that a tyrant's reign may be justified in what circumstances?
(a) If he cannot be deposed.
(b) In extreme historical circumstances.
(c) For a brief period of time.
(d) If he brings the nation out of its troubles.

4. 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) Make only the necessary sacrifices.
(d) Give up his first-born child.

5. In the concentration camp, what is Beta's job?
(a) Removing bodies from the gas chambers.
(b) Directing Jews to the gas chambers or work.
(c) Rationing food to the prisoners.
(d) Unloading Jews from the box-cars.

Short Answer Questions

1. As seen in Chapter 2, how does the poet of a communist country write?

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

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

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

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

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