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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The Lesson of the Baltics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When man is faced with constant death and when life seems meaningless, how does dialectical materialism seem?
(a) Mathematical and calculating.
(b) Useless and outmoded.
(c) Like a refuge.
(d) Mysterious and full of meaning.

2. The Multi-Bing pills are most tempting to what type of person?
(a) A peasant.
(b) An intellectual.
(c) A worker.
(d) A merchant.

3. After two years, Delta returned again to favor, and how did his future look?
(a) He could be assured that it will last.
(b) He was returned only for the translation of a Shakespeare poem.
(c) He was given a ten-year contract.
(d) He could not be assured that it will last.

4. What event did Alpha and Milosz narrowly miss one day as they were returning from the train station?
(a) The outbreak of a street fight.
(b) Being searched by Nazi squads.
(c) Being run over by a truck full of Jews bound for Auschwitz.
(d) Being captured in the first man-hunt for Auschwitz.

5. Chapter 6 opens with a picture of Vilna, which is a city of __________ .
(a) Gardens.
(b) Beaches.
(c) Streams.
(d) Forests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of mentality do peasants have, according to the state?

2. Why are workers told that it is a crime to strike?

3. How prevalent is National Ketman?

4. According to Chapter 8, how does communism define the reactionary?

5. Beta described the concentration camp as he saw it; how should he have described it?

(see the answer key)

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