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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. Beta described the concentration camp as he saw it; how should he have described it?
(a) As the liberating American saw it.
(b) As it really was.
(c) As the Soviets wanted him to see it.
(d) As the Nazis intended.

2. According to Chapter 4, as the Polish uprising fought the Nazis for control of Warsaw, what did the Red Army do?
(a) Sent troops to help.
(b) Waited in Moscow.
(c) Sided with the Nazis.
(d) Watched from across the river.

3. After the war, how was Alpha was received by Polish communists?
(a) With hostility.
(b) Skeptically.
(c) With open arms.
(d) On the condition he write what they wanted.

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

5. Milosz admits that he has great admiration for what people or force?
(a) The people who fight evil.
(b) The philosophers who prepare the way for change.
(c) The people who bring about change.
(d) The impersonal forces of history.

Short Answer Questions

1. Taking joy that one's life occurs within the stream of life is what type of Ketman?

2. How does the Eastern communist regard everything from the West?

3. Milosz asserts that the man of the New Faith has the greatest fear of what action?

4. Milosz uses an example from Flaubert's writing to point out one problem with the progression of Eastern communism:

5. At the end of Chapter 3, how does Milosz succinctly define Ketman?

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