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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. Within communist countries, it is not important what a man says but:
(a) Who hears him.
(b) How it is received.
(c) How he says it.
(d) What he wanted to say.

2. Defining good and evil outside of party interests is what type of Ketman?
(a) Sceptical Ketman.
(b) Aesthetic Ketman.
(c) Metaphysical Ketman.
(d) Ethical Ketman.

3. The people who practice metaphysical Ketman are often former ____________ .
(a) Communists.
(b) Catholics.
(c) Philosophers.
(d) Humanists.

4. Taking joy that one's life occurs within the stream of life is what type of Ketman?
(a) Ethical Ketman.
(b) The Ketman of revolutionary purity.
(c) Aesthetic Ketman.
(d) Professional Ketman.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Metaphysical Ketman treat man's mind?

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

4. According to Chapter 4, as the Polish uprising fought the Nazis for control of Warsaw, what did the Red Army do?

5. Milosz says that an individual has no more significance to the muse of history than what object?

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