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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Man, This Enemy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Christianity the state's primary enemy?
(a) It fosters subservience.
(b) It fosters skepticism.
(c) It encourages radicalism.
(d) It creates class divisions.

2. When Delta's writing no longer pleased the party, what happened?
(a) Publishers were instructed not to print his work.
(b) He was exiled to Siberia for three years in a labor camp.
(c) Publishers were instructed to print only the work that showed he had reformed.
(d) He was forced to print only in underground papers.

3. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?
(a) Timely.
(b) Heavenly.
(c) Earthy.
(d) Mathematical.

4. In Milosz's understanding, the class of the bourgeois is comprised of what people?
(a) National companies.
(b) Small merchants and craftsmen.
(c) Workers and peasants.
(d) Workers.

5. Chapter 6 opens with a picture of Vilna, which is a city of __________ .
(a) Gardens.
(b) Beaches.
(c) Streams.
(d) Forests.

Short Answer Questions

1. The state methods of teaching give the illusion of what?

2. In the eyes of the besieged Pole, what is the only poetry that will last?

3. Why are workers told that it is a crime to strike?

4. What phrase occurs often throughout Chapter 2?

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

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