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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Gamma, the Slave of History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aesthetic Ketman spreads because the citizens crave what aspect of daily life?
(a) Strangeness.
(b) Sameness.
(c) Similarity.
(d) Superficiality.

2. Where did the man Gamma grow up?
(a) An eighteenth-century palace.
(b) A party member's home.
(c) The country.
(d) The city.

3. As far as man's preferences in Western art and literature, what aspect does Milosz refer to?
(a) The fickleness of his choices.
(b) The ability of the state to predict his choices.
(c) The ability of the state to imitate the pieces he likes.
(d) The inexplicable nature of his choices.

4. When the Red Army came into Poland in 1945, how were writers treated?
(a) Left alone as long as they didn't print anti-communist material.
(b) Killed, to show how communism treats individual thinking.
(c) Promoted according to their communist sympathies.
(d) Encouraged, in order to show communism's support of the cultural elite.

5. What did Gamma's second wife wear?
(a) Thick Polish shoes.
(b) Heavy Russian boots.
(c) Nothing on her feet.
(d) Dainty calfskin shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How prevalent is National Ketman?

2. When Alpha and Milosz stumbled on a board with the painted words "Lieutenant Zbyszek's road of suffering," what did they meditate on?

3. In Witkeiwicz's novel, if man is attuned to the absurd, what does he see?

4. Milosz compares the Method to what animal?

5. As detailed in Chapter 6, what was the first maxim of the communist rule as it established power in a newly-conquered country?

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