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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 Multi-Bing pills are most tempting to what type of person?
(a) An intellectual.
(b) A worker.
(c) A merchant.
(d) A peasant.

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

3. Walking in the ruined city in 1945, what emotion did Alpha feel primarily?
(a) Anger.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Despair.
(d) Confusion.

4. When do Beta's stories show that people are good?
(a) Only while acting within civilization.
(b) Inherently.
(c) When life has meaning.
(d) Only when it directly benefits them.

5. While talking to Beker, who is about to be burned at the crematorium because he is too weak to work, what is Beta's attitude?
(a) Fearful of his own life.
(b) Malicious.
(c) Calm and detached.
(d) Agitated and sad.

Short Answer Questions

1. Milosz admits that he has great admiration for what people or force?

2. Milosz compares the Method to what animal?

3. In Milosz's experience, how does a man change under communist rule?

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

5. According to the center, contradictions ___________ in the minds of its citizens.

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