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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. The atmosphere in a collective society is one of what?
(a) Usefulness and action.
(b) Strength and unhappiness.
(c) Solidarity and happiness.
(d) Harmony and action.

2. Milosz explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?
(a) Complete joy.
(b) That there is no other hope of salvation.
(c) Some hesitation because of their personal property.
(d) Some hesitation because of their children.

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

4. The center planned that all Eastern European countries would speak which language?
(a) Lithuanian.
(b) Czechoslovakian.
(c) Russian.
(d) Polish.

5. In the 1940s, once they were freed of the past, how did the Eastern countries think?
(a) They regretted their choice.
(b) They modified capitalism to fit their needs.
(c) They returned to a feudalist system.
(d) They had no choice but the New Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 2 notes that though it is good to be free from something, how does freedom become better?

2. Every man considers his mode of life as what?

3. The people who practice metaphysical Ketman are often former ____________ .

4. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?

5. Alpha's pursuit of purity in his work was driven largely by what characteristic?

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