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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, as Chapter 2 explains, do Eastern communists look to the West?
(a) The New Faith allows it.
(b) The New Faith cannot satisfy their spiritual needs.
(c) The New Faith cannot satisfy their emotional needs.
(d) They are curious.

2. How did Gamma express his anti-Semitic views?
(a) To anyone who would listen.
(b) Only to the people he trusted.
(c) Calmly.
(d) Violently.

3. Catholic Communists gradually lose everything except what aspect?
(a) Their sense of guilt.
(b) A basic belief in God.
(c) The language of religion.
(d) Their trust in the Virgin Mary.

4. When Delta's writing no longer pleased the party, what happened?
(a) He was exiled to Siberia for three years in a labor camp.
(b) Publishers were instructed not to print his work.
(c) Publishers were instructed to print only the work that showed he had reformed.
(d) He was forced to print only in underground papers.

5. The Ketman of revolutionary purity holds that a tyrant's reign may be justified in what circumstances?
(a) If he brings the nation out of its troubles.
(b) If he cannot be deposed.
(c) For a brief period of time.
(d) In extreme historical circumstances.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a communist country, what is perhaps the best way to ensure one's safety?

2. While talking to Beker, who is about to be burned at the crematorium because he is too weak to work, what is Beta's attitude?

3. Milosz explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?

4. Apart from his poetry, what was Delta's personality?

5. In Milosz's experience, how does the East view everything from the West?

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