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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Man, This Enemy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Christianity the state's primary enemy?
(a) It creates class divisions.
(b) It encourages radicalism.
(c) It fosters subservience.
(d) It fosters skepticism.

2. How do the inhabitants of communist countries appear?
(a) Predominantly tall and well-dressed.
(b) Mostly Aryan, following the decimation of the Jewish population in World War II.
(c) Uniformly short and stocky.
(d) Diverse according to their racial heritages.

3. In cycles that lasted several days, what would Delta do?
(a) Write his poems.
(b) Walk the streets.
(c) Drink alcohol.
(d) Take drugs.

4. When did Alpha became a more religious writer?
(a) When he turned his back on Christianity.
(b) When he scoffed all Catholic writers.
(c) When he supported the underground Catholic church.
(d) When he became more fully involved in the church.

5. Why do Party dialecticians change the Method when necessary?
(a) They want to stay one step ahead of the reactionaries.
(b) History has destroyed all other formulae which claim to be unerring.
(c) Reality proves the Method to be unworkable.
(d) They are forced to modernize.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Alpha eventually become a communist?

2. Rather than condemning the four men about whom he writes, how does Milosz open Chapter 8?

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

4. The people who practice metaphysical Ketman are often former ____________ .

5. By standards of the East, as compared to the West, how is anyone with talent treated?

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