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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?
(a) They are perfectly happy with their lives.
(b) Change must come.
(c) Feudalism is their only salvation.
(d) Communism is their only salvation.

3. What was the title of Delta's most unusual poem, which spoke in terms best understood in a dream?
(a) The Persian King.
(b) Solomon's Ball.
(c) Folk Fair.
(d) Folk Songs.

4. According to Milosz, nations which have recently come under communist rule feel excitement at first, and then feel what emotion?
(a) Trepidation for their unknown future.
(b) That they've been lied to about the government.
(c) That they've been caught in a trap like mice.
(d) Sadness for the loss of their autonomy.

5. After two years, Delta returned again to favor, and how did his future look?
(a) He could not be assured that it will last.
(b) He could be assured that it will last.
(c) He was given a ten-year contract.
(d) He was returned only for the translation of a Shakespeare poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event did Alpha and Milosz narrowly miss one day as they were returning from the train station?

2. What was the end result of Gamma's poetry?

3. As explained in Chapter 1, if a man asks the questions to which the absurd leads him, he reaches what emotional state?

4. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?

5. The people who practice metaphysical Ketman are often former ____________ .

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