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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Citizens of communist countries become adept in what skill, according to Milosz?
(a) Acting.
(b) Reasoning.
(c) Imitating.
(d) Persuading.

2. What view of Poland's past did Delta's poetry present?
(a) The past held no hope of peace or rest.
(b) The past had the power to save her people from communism.
(c) The past was close to dying out.
(d) The past provided an alternative to communism.

3. As Beta scornfully realized, how could someone have power in Poland?
(a) Follow the procedures established by the Polish government.
(b) Destroy all Polish underground resistance.
(c) Overcome the Nazis.
(d) Seize it by force.

4. What happened when Beta's artistic talent moved to the furthest boundaries of communist dictates?
(a) It could not be satisfied, and he left the party.
(b) The words he wrote were the only things he knew.
(c) Words and individual man lost all meaning.
(d) Words could no longer move him to action.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to several examples from Eastern history, how is Ketman a way of living?

2. What did Delta, in his enthusiasm, love?

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

4. In a weekly magazine, Delta published short theater scenes under what title?

5. What was the title of Delta's most unusual poem, which spoke in terms best understood in a dream?

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