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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. What did Delta, in his enthusiasm, love?
(a) Crowds and festivals.
(b) The whirlpool of human emotions.
(c) The literary cafes.
(d) The words of intellectuals.

2. Beta remained bitter because he was unable to see what?
(a) Man in relation to his fellow man.
(b) The purpose of action within a community.
(c) Individual man apart from society.
(d) Society's reasons for action.

3. Those who assert that their work is most important, rather than the ends and benefactors of the work, are following which Ketman?
(a) Sceptical Ketman
(b) Aesthetic Ketman
(c) Professional Ketman.
(d) Ethical Ketman.

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

5. Every man considers his mode of life as what?
(a) Natural.
(b) Necessary.
(c) Unnatural.
(d) Destined to change.

Short Answer Questions

1. Walking in the ruined city in 1945, what emotion did Alpha feel primarily?

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

3. Beta wrote poems characterized by what?

4. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?

5. In Chapter 4, who is Alpha, the Moralist?

(see the answer key)

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