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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. According to Chapter 4, as the Polish uprising fought the Nazis for control of Warsaw, what did the Red Army do?
(a) Sided with the Nazis.
(b) Sent troops to help.
(c) Watched from across the river.
(d) Waited in Moscow.

2. Witkiewicz's book dealt solely with what aspect of society?
(a) Decay in society.
(b) Decay in industrial abilities.
(c) Salvation for mankind.
(d) Futuristic societies.

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

4. As Beta relates, when Greek prisoners cannot march because they are too weak, how are they first punished?
(a) With sticks tied to their legs.
(b) With beatings.
(c) With three days' hard labor.
(d) With death.

5. In the eyes of the besieged Pole, what is the only poetry that will last?
(a) Poetry that is most vivid to the reader.
(b) Poetry that is most amusing.
(c) Poetry that has most affected the writer.
(d) Poetry that is unquestionably real.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alpha became a moral authority, as he had dreamed, because of his work in what place?

2. Milosz asserts that the man of the New Faith has the greatest fear of what action?

3. How do the inhabitants of communist countries appear?

4. In the mid-twentieth century, many European nations realized that they could be directly influenced by what force?

5. As the NKVD began mass deportation, how did Gamma write communist propaganda?

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