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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. As Beta scornfully realized, how could someone have power in Poland?
(a) Seize it by force.
(b) Follow the procedures established by the Polish government.
(c) Destroy all Polish underground resistance.
(d) Overcome the Nazis.

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

3. According to Chapter 4, as the Polish uprising fought the Nazis for control of Warsaw, what did the Red Army do?
(a) Waited in Moscow.
(b) Sent troops to help.
(c) Watched from across the river.
(d) Sided with the Nazis.

4. How much time did Beta spend in the concentration camp Auschwitz?
(a) Two years.
(b) Two months.
(c) The rest of his life.
(d) Three years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of Delta's most unusual poem, which spoke in terms best understood in a dream?

2. How does the Eastern communist regard everything from the West?

3. Beta remained bitter because he was unable to see what?

4. The Multi-Bing pills are most tempting to what type of person?

5. Why, as Chapter 2 explains, do Eastern communists look to the West?

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