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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The Lesson of the Baltics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Milosz, nations which have recently come under communist rule feel excitement at first, and then feel what emotion?
(a) Trepidation for their unknown future.
(b) That they've been caught in a trap like mice.
(c) That they've been lied to about the government.
(d) Sadness for the loss of their autonomy.

2. The center planned that all Eastern European countries would speak which language?
(a) Polish.
(b) Lithuanian.
(c) Czechoslovakian.
(d) Russian.

3. After the war, how was Alpha was received by Polish communists?
(a) On the condition he write what they wanted.
(b) With hostility.
(c) With open arms.
(d) Skeptically.

4. Milosz says that both the old way of life and war-time values are natural if what happens?
(a) The government prepares for them.
(b) They come without warning.
(c) The church sanctions them.
(d) They are within a person's experience.

5. Why did Lithuania vote overwhelmingly to join the Russian state?
(a) The Red Army forced them to vote that way.
(b) The citizens believed it best for the restoration of their country.
(c) They would get their passports stamped, and not be labeled enemies.
(d) They were threatened with starvation if they did not comply.

Short Answer Questions

1. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?

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

3. Fifty years of re-education within the party can change entire nations so that they become what?

4. Art and literature of the party prove to the intellectual that what is true about the world?

5. In light of Beta's poetry, how does Milosz treat the modern artist's potential?

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