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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 did Delta begin to write violently anti-Semitic poems?
(a) The Communist Party commanded him to write them.
(b) He cared more about his audience than about the content.
(c) He cared deeply about the political change going on around him.
(d) He had begun to think along those lines.

2. How were Gamma's interactions with people characterized?
(a) By his drive for power.
(b) By his loyalty to the party.
(c) With deceit and artifice.
(d) With complete honesty.

3. As Beta scornfully realized, how could someone have power in Poland?
(a) Seize it by force.
(b) Overcome the Nazis.
(c) Destroy all Polish underground resistance.
(d) Follow the procedures established by the Polish government.

4. When man is faced with constant death and when life seems meaningless, how does dialectical materialism seem?
(a) Useless and outmoded.
(b) Mysterious and full of meaning.
(c) Like a refuge.
(d) Mathematical and calculating.

5. The last time Milosz saw Beta, how did the unassuming poet look?
(a) He had become self-assured and thoroughly political.
(b) He had become even more afraid, following his time in the concentration camp.
(c) He hadn't changed.
(d) He had become an outspoken adversary of communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Delta, in his enthusiasm, love?

2. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?

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

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

5. What was the title of Delta's most unusual poem, which spoke in terms best understood in a dream?

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