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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. In Milosz's experience, how does the East view everything from the West?
(a) Unnecessary
(b) Pure.
(c) Evil.
(d) Good.

2. How did Alpha fall into falseness?
(a) By completely isolating himself.
(b) By living among ideas of people.
(c) By living arrogantly.
(d) By living among the wrong people.

3. How does Metaphysical Ketman treat man's mind?
(a) He thinks in terms of the present.
(b) He loses the need for metaphysical answers.
(c) He thinks rationally and materialistically.
(d) He thinks religiously.

4. Witkiewicz thought art and philosophy were living out their last days, and how did he see their end?
(a) He tried to slow their decay.
(b) He tried to speed their demise.
(c) He found life without them unbearable.
(d) He couldn't wait until they were gone.

5. Beta wrote poems characterized by what?
(a) Lack of faith and the facing of death as reality.
(b) Leaning on the poet's weak faith in an effort to flee death.
(c) Taking bitter joy in the despair of the poet's surroundings.
(d) Crying out to God for deliverance.

Short Answer Questions

1. The center planned that all Eastern European countries would speak which language?

2. In Chapter 5, how is Beta characterized?

3. Milosz's book The Captive Mind deals with what subject?

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

5. How was Delta's cheerful poetry treated?

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