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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a man refuses to become a shock-worker in a factory, what does he soon find?
(a) He is fired, and cannot provide for his family.
(b) He is imprisoned until his views change.
(c) He is demoted until he can learn respect.
(d) He is denied the privileges of better work or vacation.

2. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?
(a) Poets may write what content they choose as long as it follows the same form.
(b) The state only slightly moderates art.
(c) Individual art has intrinsic value.
(d) Individual art outside the party lines has no lasting value.

3. Milosz asserts that the man of the New Faith has the greatest fear of what action?
(a) Losing the capability to reason.
(b) Acting based on others' decisions.
(c) Thinking for others.
(d) Thinking for himself.

4. According to several examples from Eastern history, how is Ketman a way of living?
(a) Flaunting heresy.
(b) Remaining completely obedient.
(c) Appearing obedient while harboring heresy.
(d) Appearing obedient while exposing heresy in others.

5. What view of Poland's past did Delta's poetry present?
(a) The past was close to dying out.
(b) The past held no hope of peace or rest.
(c) The past provided an alternative to communism.
(d) The past had the power to save her people from communism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How were Gamma's interactions with people characterized?

3. The last time Milosz saw Beta, how did the unassuming poet look?

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

5. In Chapter 5, how is Beta characterized?

(see the answer key)

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