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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. How do the inhabitants of communist countries appear?
(a) Mostly Aryan, following the decimation of the Jewish population in World War II.
(b) Predominantly tall and well-dressed.
(c) Diverse according to their racial heritages.
(d) Uniformly short and stocky.

2. 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 has most affected the writer.
(c) Poetry that is unquestionably real.
(d) Poetry that is most amusing.

3. When do Beta's stories show that people are good?
(a) When life has meaning.
(b) Only when it directly benefits them.
(c) Only while acting within civilization.
(d) Inherently.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Alpha fall into falseness?

2. Why, as Chapter 2 explains, do Eastern communists look to the West?

3. How do the Multi-Bing pills change a man?

4. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?

5. What phrase occurs often throughout Chapter 2?

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