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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 an unknown assassin.
(b) By suicide.
(c) At the hands of the communists.
(d) At the hands of the Nazis.

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

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

4. In Milosz's experience, how does the East view everything from the West?
(a) Good.
(b) Pure.
(c) Evil.
(d) Unnecessary

5. Beta wrote poems characterized by what?
(a) Leaning on the poet's weak faith in an effort to flee death.
(b) Crying out to God for deliverance.
(c) Lack of faith and the facing of death as reality.
(d) Taking bitter joy in the despair of the poet's surroundings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catholic Communists gradually lose everything except what aspect?

2. How does Metaphysical Ketman treat man's mind?

3. In Witkeiwicz's novel, if man is attuned to the absurd, what does he see?

4. The center planned that all Eastern European countries would speak which language?

5. As he got older, how did Gamma feel about his life?

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