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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. In Milosz's experience, how does the East view everything from the West?
(a) Pure.
(b) Unnecessary
(c) Evil.
(d) Good.

2. Art and literature of the party prove to the intellectual that what is true about the world?
(a) Things can be different if he works hard enough.
(b) Only Western influence can change things.
(c) Things cannot be different than they are.
(d) Only the party can change things.

3. Chapter 2 opens with the picture of the Eastern communists looking to the West with what emotion/s?
(a) Unabashed hope.
(b) Disillusionment.
(c) A mixture of hope and despair.
(d) Anger and confusion.

4. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?
(a) History has condemned capitalism.
(b) History will again favor the bourgeois.
(c) Fascism paves the road for communism.
(d) History favors communism but allows capitalism to remain.

5. Which Ketman asserts that men do not know how to rule themselves or properly distribute goods?
(a) Metaphysical Ketman.
(b) Ethical Ketman.
(c) The Ketman of revolutionary purity.
(d) Sceptical Ketman.

Short Answer Questions

1. The last time Milosz saw Beta, how did the unassuming poet look?

2. The center planned that all Eastern European countries would speak which language?

3. In Milosz's experience, how does a man change under communist rule?

4. Milosz says that an individual has no more significance to the muse of history than what object?

5. As Beta scornfully realized, how could someone have power in Poland?

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