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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 1932, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz wrote a book entitled what?
(a) Insatiability.
(b) Incongruity.
(c) Insecurity.
(d) Instability.

2. In a communist country, what is perhaps the best way to ensure one's safety?
(a) To loudly proclaim Russia's pre-eminence.
(b) To become known as a spy.
(c) To join with like-minded people.
(d) To keep one's opinions quiet.

3. The "accidental unmaskings of Ketman," Chapter 3, are called _________ .
(a) Deviations.
(b) Hallucinations.
(c) Derivations.
(d) Perpetuations.

4. Art and literature of the party prove to the intellectual that what is true about the world?
(a) Only the party can change things.
(b) Things can be different if he works hard enough.
(c) Things cannot be different than they are.
(d) Only Western influence can change things.

5. Milosz compares the Method to what animal?
(a) An ox, strong enough to bear the weight of reality.
(b) A powerful bird whose wing is broken.
(c) A fox, wily enough to deceive those who are skeptical.
(d) A snake, for which the tail begins at any point.

Short Answer Questions

1. Defining good and evil outside of party interests is what type of Ketman?

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

3. In Chapter 4, once the Nazis took over a country, how did they treat the printing presses?

4. What was the result of this group created by Gamma and his friends?

5. According to Chapter 4, as the Polish uprising fought the Nazis for control of Warsaw, what did the Red Army do?

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