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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. According to several examples from Eastern history, how is Ketman a way of living?
(a) Appearing obedient while harboring heresy.
(b) Appearing obedient while exposing heresy in others.
(c) Flaunting heresy.
(d) Remaining completely obedient.

2. The purpose of Chapter 2 is to compare and contrast what two groups?
(a) Eastern and Western communists.
(b) Eastern Europe with Eastern Asia.
(c) Communists and capitalists.
(d) Communists and fascists.

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

4. At a fairly young age, how did Beta die?
(a) At the hands of the communists.
(b) By an unknown assassin.
(c) At the hands of the Nazis.
(d) By suicide.

5. Beta wrote poems characterized by what?
(a) Crying out to God for deliverance.
(b) Taking bitter joy in the despair of the poet's surroundings.
(c) Lack of faith and the facing of death as reality.
(d) Leaning on the poet's weak faith in an effort to flee death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the state take advantage of professional Ketman?

2. Within communist countries, it is not important what a man says but:

3. As far as man's preferences in Western art and literature, what aspect does Milosz refer to?

4. In Chapter 4, once the Nazis took over a country, how did they treat the printing presses?

5. The most difficult thing for a man of the New Faith to conquer, according to Milosz, is his feeling of what?

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