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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 seeking a strong heroic element, what character/s did Alpha's second novel choose?
(a) Several people of the New Faith.
(b) A town devoted to the New Faith.
(c) A man of the New Faith.
(d) A Polish man with strong nationalistic feeling.

2. Why did Delta begin to write violently anti-Semitic poems?
(a) He cared deeply about the political change going on around him.
(b) He had begun to think along those lines.
(c) He cared more about his audience than about the content.
(d) The Communist Party commanded him to write them.

3. How did Delta return to his wife in Poland?
(a) With a girl he'd picked up at the Polish border.
(b) Without a single penny.
(c) With a girlfriend he'd brought from Brussels.
(d) Completely sober.

4. What phrase occurs often throughout Chapter 2?
(a) The venerable West.
(b) The horrific West.
(c) The decadent West.
(d) The cosmopolitan West.

5. In the concentration camp, what kind of life does Beta lead?
(a) With experiences which he never talks about afterward.
(b) Hungry and miserable, but happy to be alive.
(c) Healthy and well-dressed, and brags about it.
(d) Healthy and well-dressed, but cannot escape his guilt.

Short Answer Questions

1. When man is faced with constant death and when life seems meaningless, how does dialectical materialism seem?

2. The people who practice metaphysical Ketman are often former ____________ .

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

4. What was the title of Beta's first book?

5. Milosz opens Chapter 9 with a broader picture of the nations. How does he treat those who have been lost in the struggles of history?

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