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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 was Delta's cheerful poetry treated?
(a) Mocked by the public.
(b) Ignored by the party.
(c) Put to good use by the party.
(d) Scorned by the party as sentimental.

2. 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) A plea for rescue.
(c) An appalling account of living in drudgery.
(d) An acrostic reading "Eternal Slave."

3. Chapter 6 opens with a picture of Vilna, which is a city of __________ .
(a) Beaches.
(b) Gardens.
(c) Streams.
(d) Forests.

4. The "accidental unmaskings of Ketman," Chapter 3, are called _________ .
(a) Hallucinations.
(b) Derivations.
(c) Deviations.
(d) Perpetuations.

5. Alpha's pursuit of purity in his work was driven largely by what characteristic?
(a) Personal arrogance.
(b) Devotion to the church.
(c) Sense of personal purity.
(d) Jaded view of the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase occurs often throughout Chapter 2?

2. What was the end result of Gamma's poetry?

3. According to Milosz, nations which have recently come under communist rule feel excitement at first, and then feel what emotion?

4. Taking joy that one's life occurs within the stream of life is what type of Ketman?

5. Harboring contempt for Russia is what type of Ketman?

(see the answer key)

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