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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Beta the Disappointed Lover.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why, as Chapter 2 explains, do Eastern communists look to the West?
(a) The New Faith cannot satisfy their emotional needs.
(b) The New Faith allows it.
(c) The New Faith cannot satisfy their spiritual needs.
(d) They are curious.

2. 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.

3. Russian engineers and doctors ________ Western innovations.
(a) Anticipate.
(b) Ignore.
(c) Sell.
(d) Copy.

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

5. In the eyes of the besieged Pole, what is the only poetry that will last?
(a) Poetry that is most vivid to the reader.
(b) Poetry that is most amusing.
(c) Poetry that is unquestionably real.
(d) Poetry that has most affected the writer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harboring contempt for Russia is what type of Ketman?

2. Beta described the concentration camp as he saw it; how should he have described it?

3. When Alpha and Milosz stumbled on a board with the painted words "Lieutenant Zbyszek's road of suffering," what did they meditate on?

4. How do the Multi-Bing pills change a man?

5. In 1932, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz wrote a book entitled what?

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