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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. How does Milosz describe Delta's poetry?
(a) A kaleidoscope.
(b) An abomination.
(c) A chubby angel.
(d) A song played too quickly.

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

3. What was the title of Delta's most unusual poem, which spoke in terms best understood in a dream?
(a) Solomon's Ball.
(b) Folk Fair.
(c) The Persian King.
(d) Folk Songs.

4. Aesthetic Ketman spreads because the citizens crave what aspect of daily life?
(a) Similarity.
(b) Superficiality.
(c) Strangeness.
(d) Sameness.

5. Citizens of communist countries become adept in what skill, according to Milosz?
(a) Imitating.
(b) Reasoning.
(c) Persuading.
(d) Acting.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Milosz's experience, how does a man change under communist rule?

2. As the NKVD began mass deportation, how did Gamma write communist propaganda?

3. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?

4. Milosz devotes several pages of Chapter 9 to a history of which countries?

5. Multi-Bing pills establish ________ foundations rather than _________ .

(see the answer key)

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