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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 Milosz received a letter from a small family in Siberia, what was in the letter?
(a) The money they'd scraped together to buy their freedom.
(b) An appalling account of living in drudgery.
(c) A plea for rescue.
(d) An acrostic reading "Eternal Slave."

2. In cycles that lasted several days, what would Delta do?
(a) Write his poems.
(b) Drink alcohol.
(c) Take drugs.
(d) Walk the streets.

3. The state methods of teaching give the illusion of what?
(a) Complete knowledge.
(b) Complete power.
(c) Historical right.
(d) A mysterious unknown.

4. What difficult question did the incorporation of the Baltics raise?
(a) Production
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Underground resistance.
(d) Nationalities.

5. While living in exile, how did Delta feel?
(a) A drunkard.
(b) A poor writer.
(c) Lonely and forgotten.
(d) Popular and well-liked.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Chapter 8 briefly explains, how does the State regard the propertied class?

2. The people who practice metaphysical Ketman are often former ____________ .

3. The most difficult thing for a man of the New Faith to conquer, according to Milosz, is his feeling of what?

4. How did Delta return to his wife in Poland?

5. Milosz compares the Method to what animal?

(see the answer key)

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