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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rather than condemning the four men about whom he writes, how does Milosz open Chapter 8?
(a) Saying they were victims of historical circumstance
(b) Saying the situation was too senseless to see the truth.
(c) Saying they were enslaved by their ways of thinking.
(d) Saying they were misguided by their education.

2. In the concentration camp, what is Beta's job?
(a) Removing bodies from the gas chambers.
(b) Unloading Jews from the box-cars.
(c) Directing Jews to the gas chambers or work.
(d) Rationing food to the prisoners.

3. During World War II, how did the nearness of death affect the Poles' lives?
(a) It destroyed all sense of shame.
(b) It made them ambivalent to the future.
(c) It created a daily thankfulness for life.
(d) It instilled terror.

4. Cosmopolitanism, as defined by communism, is what thought?
(a) Admiration for all cultures.
(b) Admiration for all countries in the communist bloc.
(c) Fear of the Western bourgeois cultures.
(d) Admiration for the Western bourgeois cultures.

5. In what city did Alpha the Moralist live?
(a) Vilna.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) Marek.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. During Gamma's youth, Poland gradually separated along what lines?

2. Why was Gamma's writing weak?

3. After two years, Delta returned again to favor, and how did his future look?

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

5. While living in exile, how did Delta feel?

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