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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 Delta's most unusual poem, which spoke in terms best understood in a dream?
(a) The Persian King.
(b) Folk Fair.
(c) Folk Songs.
(d) Solomon's Ball.

2. Defining good and evil outside of party interests is what type of Ketman?
(a) Sceptical Ketman.
(b) Metaphysical Ketman.
(c) Ethical Ketman.
(d) Aesthetic Ketman.

3. American politics regarded Russia's invasion of Eastern countries with what emotion?
(a) Scorn.
(b) Fear.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Anger.

4. What happened when Beta's artistic talent moved to the furthest boundaries of communist dictates?
(a) It could not be satisfied, and he left the party.
(b) Words and individual man lost all meaning.
(c) The words he wrote were the only things he knew.
(d) Words could no longer move him to action.

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) Almost nothing was printed in that country's language.
(d) They destroyed the printing presses and offices.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 8, how does communism define the reactionary?

2. What did Delta, in his enthusiasm, love?

3. Chapter 2 opens with the picture of the Eastern communists looking to the West with what emotion/s?

4. Milosz ends The Captive Mind with the hope that what will happen?

5. Although the revolution did conquer Russia, why does the golden age of communism belong to the future?

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