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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. American politics regarded Russia's invasion of Eastern countries with what emotion?
(a) Anger.
(b) Scorn.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Fear.

2. What event did Alpha and Milosz narrowly miss one day as they were returning from the train station?
(a) Being searched by Nazi squads.
(b) Being captured in the first man-hunt for Auschwitz.
(c) The outbreak of a street fight.
(d) Being run over by a truck full of Jews bound for Auschwitz.

3. Beta wrote poems characterized by what?
(a) Leaning on the poet's weak faith in an effort to flee death.
(b) Crying out to God for deliverance.
(c) Taking bitter joy in the despair of the poet's surroundings.
(d) Lack of faith and the facing of death as reality.

4. The most difficult thing for a man of the New Faith to conquer, according to Milosz, is his feeling of what?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Trepidation.
(c) Suspicion.
(d) Elation.

5. Milosz compares the American law system to what image?
(a) A powerful ship.
(b) A man drowning at sea.
(c) People in a raft paddling different directions.
(d) A man alone on a log raft.

Short Answer Questions

1. Within communist countries, it is not important what a man says but:

2. Why did the new communist government have a difficult time in Poland after World War II?

3. In the eyes of the besieged Pole, what is the only poetry that will last?

4. When do Beta's stories show that people are good?

5. Why was Gamma's writing weak?

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