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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When he spent time in Moscow, what kinds of reports did Delta send back?
(a) Ones that said exactly what the party wanted to hear.
(b) Ones that glowed with enthusiasm.
(c) Ones that portrayed the city as gloomy.
(d) Ones that spoke haltingly of Russian progress.

2. How did Delta return to his wife in Poland?
(a) With a girl he'd picked up at the Polish border.
(b) Without a single penny.
(c) With a girlfriend he'd brought from Brussels.
(d) Completely sober.

3. Chapter 6 opens with a picture of Vilna, which is a city of __________ .
(a) Forests.
(b) Gardens.
(c) Beaches.
(d) Streams.

4. In the context of Chapter 8, peasants are divided into three categories so that what happens?
(a) They form ties outside their social class.
(b) The Center can better govern them.
(c) Work is done most efficiently.
(d) Mutual hatred grows among them.

5. In Chapter 5, how is Beta characterized?
(a) Shy and aloof.
(b) Outspoken and arrogant.
(c) Shy and arrogant.
(d) Impossible to understand.

6. In the concentration camp, what is Beta's job?
(a) Directing Jews to the gas chambers or work.
(b) Rationing food to the prisoners.
(c) Unloading Jews from the box-cars.
(d) Removing bodies from the gas chambers.

7. During Gamma's youth, Poland gradually separated along what lines?
(a) The traditional right and Soviet left.
(b) The nationalistic right and socialist left.
(c) Pro-Semitic and anti-Semitic.
(d) The capitalists and communists.

8. As Chapter 8 briefly explains, how does the State regard the propertied class?
(a) Most important.
(b) Least hopeful for reform.
(c) Least likely to rebel.
(d) Least important.

9. In Russia, what organization did Gamma and several of his friends create?
(a) The Union of Workers.
(b) The Union of Patriots.
(c) The Society for the Well-Being of Mankind.
(d) The Society of Enlightened Communist Workers.

10. As the NKVD began mass deportation, how did Gamma write communist propaganda?
(a) Even as his family was deported to Siberia.
(b) To keep from being deported himself.
(c) In support of the deportations.
(d) Because, by doing it he could save his family.

11. At a fairly young age, how did Beta die?
(a) At the hands of the Nazis.
(b) By an unknown assassin.
(c) By suicide.
(d) At the hands of the communists.

12. Why did Beta's writing assert that communism was salvation?
(a) Capitalism could not provide for society's needs.
(b) Man was too weak to save himself.
(c) Capitalism led to Hitlerism.
(d) Man would not think for himself.

13. As Milosz witnessed, why was becoming a communist a difficult decision?
(a) A person renounced his sense of personality.
(b) A person became subject to the whims of the bourgeois.
(c) A person gave up all his personal property.
(d) A person renounced his sense of nationalism.

14. What was the title of Beta's first book?
(a) The Shining Sun.
(b) The Stony Ground.
(c) The Stone and Sky.
(d) The Stony World.

15. How does Milosz describe Delta's poetry?
(a) A chubby angel.
(b) A song played too quickly.
(c) An abomination.
(d) A kaleidoscope.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the end result of Gamma's poetry?

3. While talking to Beker, who is about to be burned at the crematorium because he is too weak to work, what is Beta's attitude?

4. How can the relationship between Gamma and the author be described?

5. Why are workers told that it is a crime to strike?

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