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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 was the title of Beta's first book?
(a) The Stone and Sky.
(b) The Stony Ground.
(c) The Shining Sun.
(d) The Stony World.

2. What is the center's goal in shifting large populations?
(a) Create a single culture with one language.
(b) Mix the nations together.
(c) Cover their tracks when killing large numbers of people.
(d) Create solidarity on a local level, rather than a national.

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

4. As the Polish fought the Germans for control of Warsaw near the end of the war, how did a few people manage to survive?
(a) Turning themselves in as prisoners of war.
(b) Swimming across the river.
(c) Hiding in the surrounding forests.
(d) Hiding with the underground resistance.

5. In Chapter 4, once the Nazis took over a country, how did they treat the printing presses?
(a) Printing continued as normal.
(b) They took over the presses to print large volumes of propaganda.
(c) They destroyed the printing presses and offices.
(d) Almost nothing was printed in that country's language.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Milosz witnessed, why was becoming a communist a difficult decision?

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

3. In a weekly magazine, Delta published short theater scenes under what title?

4. In cycles that lasted several days, what would Delta do?

5. Milosz compares the Method to what animal?

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