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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Beta the Disappointed Lover.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Witkiewicz's novel, the characters ultimately become:
(a) Catatonic.
(b) Hypochondriacs.
(c) Schizophrenics.
(d) Bolshevik.

2. Why did Beta's writing assert that communism was salvation?
(a) Man would not think for himself.
(b) Capitalism led to Hitlerism.
(c) Man was too weak to save himself.
(d) Capitalism could not provide for society's needs.

3. What event did Alpha and Milosz narrowly miss one day as they were returning from the train station?
(a) The outbreak of a street fight.
(b) Being captured in the first man-hunt for Auschwitz.
(c) Being searched by Nazi squads.
(d) Being run over by a truck full of Jews bound for Auschwitz.

4. Milosz illustrates Ketman with the example of what person?
(a) An average housewife.
(b) A Shiite theologian.
(c) A Muslim.
(d) A communist.

5. In seeking a strong heroic element, what character/s did Alpha's second novel choose?
(a) A town devoted to the New Faith.
(b) A man of the New Faith.
(c) Several people of the New Faith.
(d) A Polish man with strong nationalistic feeling.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Eastern communist regard everything from the West?

2. Beta remained bitter because he was unable to see what?

3. Russian engineers and doctors ________ Western innovations.

4. Walking in the ruined city in 1945, what emotion did Alpha feel primarily?

5. In Chapter 4, who is Alpha, the Moralist?

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