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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 is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?
(a) History has condemned capitalism.
(b) History favors communism but allows capitalism to remain.
(c) Fascism paves the road for communism.
(d) History will again favor the bourgeois.

2. In Chapter 8, how does the party treat whatever is not expressed?
(a) It is not dangerous.
(b) It does not exist.
(c) It is not important.
(d) It is most dangerous.

3. According to Chapter 8, how does communism define the reactionary?
(a) Is incapable of seeing how everything is interdependent.
(b) Refuses to agree wholeheartedly with the party.
(c) Reverts to the traditional way of thinking.
(d) Acts contrary to party principles.

4. How prevalent is National Ketman?
(a) Limited to the people who have no power within the party.
(b) Limited to the upper circles of the party.
(c) Not of concern to the center.
(d) Widespread throughout communist society.

5. When did Alpha became a more religious writer?
(a) When he became more fully involved in the church.
(b) When he supported the underground Catholic church.
(c) When he scoffed all Catholic writers.
(d) When he turned his back on Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. As he wraps up the book, what is Milosz most concerned with?

2. Chapter 6 opens with a picture of Vilna, which is a city of __________ .

3. Beta described the concentration camp as he saw it; how should he have described it?

4. When the Red Army came into Poland in 1945, how were writers treated?

5. Apart from his poetry, what was Delta's personality?

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