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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 1932, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz wrote a book entitled what?
(a) Instability.
(b) Incongruity.
(c) Insatiability.
(d) Insecurity.

2. When a man looks to the West, why does he not have clear insight?
(a) He cannot be realistic.
(b) His emotions interfere.
(c) Life in the East has drastically shaped his view.
(d) The party center obscures the truth.

3. Why did the new communist government have a difficult time in Poland after World War II?
(a) They were unprepared for the hardship.
(b) The citizens did not want them there.
(c) Moscow had sent too few leaders.
(d) The modes of transportation were insufficient.

4. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?
(a) Heavenly.
(b) Mathematical.
(c) Earthy.
(d) Timely.

5. Milosz explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?
(a) That there is no other hope of salvation.
(b) Some hesitation because of their children.
(c) Some hesitation because of their personal property.
(d) Complete joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cosmopolitanism, as defined by communism, is what thought?

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

3. As explained in Chapter 1, if a man asks the questions to which the absurd leads him, he reaches what emotional state?

4. Alpha's pursuit of purity in his work was driven largely by what characteristic?

5. Every man considers his mode of life as what?

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