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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When someone asked about his family and origins, how would Delta answer?
(a) Fall silent.
(b) Tell a different story every time.
(c) Go into great detail about his hometown.
(d) Answer questions about his town but not about his family.

2. As seen in Chapter 2, how does the poet of a communist country write?
(a) For the marching soldiers.
(b) As an ideal citizen.
(c) As himself.
(d) Exactly what the state tells him.

3. How did Delta return to his wife in Poland?
(a) With a girlfriend he'd brought from Brussels.
(b) Completely sober.
(c) With a girl he'd picked up at the Polish border.
(d) Without a single penny.

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

5. Beta described the concentration camp as he saw it; how should he have described it?
(a) As the liberating American saw it.
(b) As the Nazis intended.
(c) As it really was.
(d) As the Soviets wanted him to see it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Milosz illustrates Ketman with the example of what person?

2. In a weekly magazine, Delta published short theater scenes under what title?

3. After being captured as a Polish soldier, what happened to Delta?

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

5. While talking to Beker, who is about to be burned at the crematorium because he is too weak to work, what is Beta's attitude?

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