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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the new communist government have a difficult time in Poland after World War II?
(a) The citizens did not want them there.
(b) Moscow had sent too few leaders.
(c) The modes of transportation were insufficient.
(d) They were unprepared for the hardship.

2. According to Chapter 8, how does communism define the reactionary?
(a) Acts contrary to party principles.
(b) Reverts to the traditional way of thinking.
(c) Refuses to agree wholeheartedly with the party.
(d) Is incapable of seeing how everything is interdependent.

3. In the eyes of the besieged Pole, what is the only poetry that will last?
(a) Poetry that is most vivid to the reader.
(b) Poetry that has most affected the writer.
(c) Poetry that is unquestionably real.
(d) Poetry that is most amusing.

4. The purpose of Chapter 2 is to compare and contrast what two groups?
(a) Eastern and Western communists.
(b) Communists and fascists.
(c) Eastern Europe with Eastern Asia.
(d) Communists and capitalists.

5. Alpha's pursuit of purity in his work was driven largely by what characteristic?
(a) Personal arrogance.
(b) Sense of personal purity.
(c) Jaded view of the world.
(d) Devotion to the church.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1932, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz wrote a book entitled what?

2. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?

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

4. Milosz ends Chapter I with the question:

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

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