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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. What phrase occurs often throughout Chapter 2?
(a) The horrific West.
(b) The venerable West.
(c) The decadent West.
(d) The cosmopolitan West.

2. The purpose of Chapter 2 is to compare and contrast what two groups?
(a) Communists and capitalists.
(b) Eastern and Western communists.
(c) Eastern Europe with Eastern Asia.
(d) Communists and fascists.

3. In Chapter 4, who is Alpha, the Moralist?
(a) A little-known prose writer, a good friend of Milosz.
(b) A well-known prose writer, a good friend of Milosz.
(c) A well-known poet, a good friend of Milosz.
(d) A well-known prose writer not personally known to Milosz.

4. Multi-Bing pills establish ________ foundations rather than _________ .
(a) Scientific, religious.
(b) Philosophical, scientific.
(c) Aesthetic, religious.
(d) Materialistic, aesthetic.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Beta described the concentration camp as he saw it; how should he have described it?

3. During World War II, how did the nearness of death affect the Poles' lives?

4. Which Ketman asserts that men do not know how to rule themselves or properly distribute goods?

5. Beta wrote poems characterized by what?

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