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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. How can the relationship between Gamma and the author be described?
(a) An acquaintanceship.
(b) A love affair.
(c) A game.
(d) A deep friendship.

4. Milosz's book The Captive Mind deals with what subject?
(a) Fictional characters.
(b) Society some time in the future.
(c) What he experienced living in Poland.
(d) What he heard about after living in the United States.

5. What did Delta, in his enthusiasm, love?
(a) The whirlpool of human emotions.
(b) The literary cafes.
(c) The words of intellectuals.
(d) Crowds and festivals.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Delta's cheerful poetry treated?

2. The Multi-Bing pills are most tempting to what type of person?

3. Milosz says that both the old way of life and war-time values are natural if what happens?

4. When Delta's writing no longer pleased the party, what happened?

5. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?

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