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

2. Those who assert that their work is most important, rather than the ends and benefactors of the work, are following which Ketman?
(a) Professional Ketman.
(b) Sceptical Ketman
(c) Ethical Ketman.
(d) Aesthetic Ketman

3. What was the end result of Gamma's poetry?
(a) Moving and deeply felt.
(b) Poorly written, but heart-felt.
(c) Careful word arrangements that said nothing.
(d) Well-written.

4. In light of Beta's poetry, how does Milosz treat the modern artist's potential?
(a) He is condemned to inactivity.
(b) He follows the artistic traditions of former eras.
(c) He can never know rest or inactivity.
(d) He works best without established equilibrium.

5. What was the result of this group created by Gamma and his friends?
(a) Publicly praised for its faithfulness to communist ideals.
(b) The beginning of the communist government in Warsaw.
(c) Disbanded after two years because it lost popularity.
(d) Exiled for trying to usurp power from the center in Moscow.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time did Beta spend in the concentration camp Auschwitz?

2. As seen in Chapter 2, how does the poet of a communist country write?

3. Milosz explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?

4. When the Red Army came into Poland in 1945, how were writers treated?

5. How did Gamma express his anti-Semitic views?

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