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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 8, Milosz explains that the totalitarian states places such emotional strain on its citizens that what occurs?
(a) They will cease to think for themselves.
(b) They cannot survive long as individuals.
(c) The people cannot be responsible for their actions.
(d) The strain itself determines their actions.

2. Because he believed in earthly salvation, what did Beta argue?
(a) Anyone opposing mankind's happiness is evil.
(b) Promises of heavenly salvation are false.
(c) History has no force in man's present struggles.
(d) Only man can bring about his own happiness.

3. As Chapter 8 briefly explains, how does the State regard the propertied class?
(a) Most important.
(b) Least hopeful for reform.
(c) Least likely to rebel.
(d) Least important.

4. Why are workers told that it is a crime to strike?
(a) The highest goal of state factories is efficiency.
(b) It is not in the best interests of the state.
(c) It has drastic negative effects on the entire nation.
(d) They are working for the state, which is to say for themselves.

5. What happened when Beta's artistic talent moved to the furthest boundaries of communist dictates?
(a) It could not be satisfied, and he left the party.
(b) Words and individual man lost all meaning.
(c) Words could no longer move him to action.
(d) The words he wrote were the only things he knew.

Short Answer Questions

1. Milosz compares the American law system to what image?

2. Why, as Chapter 2 explains, do Eastern communists look to the West?

3. Witkiewicz's book dealt solely with what aspect of society?

4. What was the title of Delta's most unusual poem, which spoke in terms best understood in a dream?

5. In what city did Alpha the Moralist live?

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