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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 Gamma's second wife wear?
(a) Dainty calfskin shoes.
(b) Thick Polish shoes.
(c) Nothing on her feet.
(d) Heavy Russian boots.

2. Why are peasants not particularly dangerous, according to Milosz?
(a) They have no education and thus cannot retaliate.
(b) They are happy with their lives.
(c) The state is the only buyer of what they grow.
(d) They are more easily involved in extensive underground work.

3. When he spent time in Moscow, what kinds of reports did Delta send back?
(a) Ones that portrayed the city as gloomy.
(b) Ones that glowed with enthusiasm.
(c) Ones that said exactly what the party wanted to hear.
(d) Ones that spoke haltingly of Russian progress.

4. In order to kept his apartment and good political standing, the man practicing aesthetic Ketman is willing to do what?
(a) Give up his first-born child.
(b) Promote the party's interests at all costs.
(c) Make any sacrifice or compromise.
(d) Make only the necessary sacrifices.

5. As explained in Chapter 1, if a man asks the questions to which the absurd leads him, he reaches what emotional state?
(a) Hatred of the bourgeois.
(b) Hatred of himself.
(c) Despair for society.
(d) Hatred of the proletariat.

Short Answer Questions

1. As shown in Chapter 9, communism holds that the people who cannot accept the doctrine can only blame themselves. Why is this?

2. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?

3. When did Alpha became a more religious writer?

4. Why did Beta's writing assert that communism was salvation?

5. By standards of the East, as compared to the West, how is anyone with talent treated?

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