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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Delta, the Troubadour.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At a fairly young age, how did Beta die?
(a) By suicide.
(b) By an unknown assassin.
(c) At the hands of the communists.
(d) At the hands of the Nazis.

2. Within communist countries, it is not important what a man says but:
(a) How he says it.
(b) What he wanted to say.
(c) Who hears him.
(d) How it is received.

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

4. When do Beta's stories show that people are good?
(a) Only while acting within civilization.
(b) When life has meaning.
(c) Inherently.
(d) Only when it directly benefits them.

5. As Beta relates, when Greek prisoners cannot march because they are too weak, how are they first punished?
(a) With death.
(b) With beatings.
(c) With sticks tied to their legs.
(d) With three days' hard labor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time did Beta spend in the concentration camp Auschwitz?

2. How do the inhabitants of communist countries appear?

3. In order to kept his apartment and good political standing, the man practicing aesthetic Ketman is willing to do what?

4. Delta would have fit well into what time period?

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

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