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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. When Alpha and Milosz stumbled on a board with the painted words "Lieutenant Zbyszek's road of suffering," what did they meditate on?
(a) The story of Lieutenant Zbyszek's family.
(b) Their own possible deaths.
(c) History's plans for a man's life.
(d) What remains at the end of a man's life.

2. Russian engineers and doctors ________ Western innovations.
(a) Sell.
(b) Ignore.
(c) Anticipate.
(d) Copy.

3. In the mid-twentieth century, many European nations realized that they could be directly influenced by what force?
(a) New rulers.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Communism.

4. Milosz says that both the old way of life and war-time values are natural if what happens?
(a) They are within a person's experience.
(b) The church sanctions them.
(c) The government prepares for them.
(d) They come without warning.

5. Aesthetic Ketman spreads because the citizens crave what aspect of daily life?
(a) Strangeness.
(b) Sameness.
(c) Similarity.
(d) Superficiality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because he believed in earthly salvation, what did Beta argue?

2. By standards of the East, as compared to the West, how is anyone with talent treated?

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

4. In seeking a strong heroic element, what character/s did Alpha's second novel choose?

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

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