View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the title of Beta's first book?
(a) The Stony Ground.
(b) The Shining Sun.
(c) The Stony World.
(d) The Stone and Sky.

2. Often when Milosz sees women walking through the streets of Paris, what does he remember?
(a) An unknown girl run over by an SS truck.
(b) A Jewish girl shot while running for her life.
(c) A Polish girl brushing her hair.
(d) His dead wife.

3. As explained in Chapter 2, the party considers _________ one of the highest virtues.
(a) Informing.
(b) Restraint.
(c) Compliance.
(d) Silence.

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

5. Why does the state take advantage of professional Ketman?
(a) It exploits the workers.
(b) It has other, more pressing concerns.
(c) The problem is minimal.
(d) It needs doctors and engineers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when Beta's artistic talent moved to the furthest boundaries of communist dictates?

2. Defining good and evil outside of party interests is what type of Ketman?

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

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

5. Apart from his poetry, what was Delta's personality?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 292 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample