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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. Apart from his poetry, what was Delta's personality?
(a) Optimistic and cheerful.
(b) Completely deceitful.
(c) Sly and fearful.
(d) Sly and gloomy.

2. What view of Poland's past did Delta's poetry present?
(a) The past held no hope of peace or rest.
(b) The past provided an alternative to communism.
(c) The past had the power to save her people from communism.
(d) The past was close to dying out.

3. How do the Multi-Bing pills change a man?
(a) They make him more productive in society.
(b) They create nervousness and tension.
(c) They erase all metaphysical concerns.
(d) They erase vestiges of harmful personality.

4. Why did Beta's writing assert that communism was salvation?
(a) Man would not think for himself.
(b) Capitalism could not provide for society's needs.
(c) Man was too weak to save himself.
(d) Capitalism led to Hitlerism.

5. Milosz admits that he has great admiration for what people or force?
(a) The people who bring about change.
(b) The impersonal forces of history.
(c) The philosophers who prepare the way for change.
(d) The people who fight evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Within communist countries, it is not important what a man says but:

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

3. What was the result of this group created by Gamma and his friends?

4. How does Metaphysical Ketman treat man's mind?

5. What difficult question did the incorporation of the Baltics raise?

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