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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Milosz admits that he has great admiration for what people or force?
(a) The people who fight evil.
(b) The impersonal forces of history.
(c) The philosophers who prepare the way for change.
(d) The people who bring about change.

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

3. Milosz says that both the old way of life and war-time values are natural if what happens?
(a) They are within a person's experience.
(b) They come without warning.
(c) The government prepares for them.
(d) The church sanctions them.

4. Because the Communist Party was at first illegal in Poland, what did party members do?
(a) Had no choice but to rebel against the laws.
(b) Bided their time until communism had gained a stronger footing.
(c) Were forced to work only through underground means.
(d) Tried to sway public opinion with writers who were sympathetic to communism.

5. How did Delta return to his wife in Poland?
(a) With a girlfriend he'd brought from Brussels.
(b) Without a single penny.
(c) Completely sober.
(d) With a girl he'd picked up at the Polish border.

Short Answer Questions

1. Beta wrote poems characterized by what?

2. Milosz's book The Captive Mind deals with what subject?

3. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?

4. Why was Gamma's writing weak?

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

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