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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Beta remained bitter because he was unable to see what?
(a) Society's reasons for action.
(b) Individual man apart from society.
(c) Man in relation to his fellow man.
(d) The purpose of action within a community.

4. Beta wrote poems characterized by what?
(a) Leaning on the poet's weak faith in an effort to flee death.
(b) Crying out to God for deliverance.
(c) Lack of faith and the facing of death as reality.
(d) Taking bitter joy in the despair of the poet's surroundings.

5. In a weekly magazine, Delta published short theater scenes under what title?
(a) Green Goose.
(b) Gray Goose.
(c) Solomon's Ball.
(d) Falangist.

Short Answer Questions

1. While talking to Beker, who is about to be burned at the crematorium because he is too weak to work, what is Beta's attitude?

2. The Ketman of revolutionary purity holds that a tyrant's reign may be justified in what circumstances?

3. Those who assert that their work is most important, rather than the ends and benefactors of the work, are following which Ketman?

4. When he spent time in Moscow, what kinds of reports did Delta send back?

5. According to the center, contradictions ___________ in the minds of its citizens.

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