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

2. How does Metaphysical Ketman treat man's mind?
(a) He thinks religiously.
(b) He thinks in terms of the present.
(c) He thinks rationally and materialistically.
(d) He loses the need for metaphysical answers.

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

4. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?
(a) History has condemned capitalism.
(b) Fascism paves the road for communism.
(c) History favors communism but allows capitalism to remain.
(d) History will again favor the bourgeois.

5. In Milosz's experience, how does a man change under communist rule?
(a) He asks questions so he can understand the new government.
(b) He sees the new rule as unnatural.
(c) He gains new habits quickly and asks no questions.
(d) He gains new habits slowly and painfully.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alpha became a moral authority, as he had dreamed, because of his work in what place?

2. The Multi-Bing pills are most tempting to what type of person?

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

4. What event did Alpha and Milosz narrowly miss one day as they were returning from the train station?

5. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?

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