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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. Why did Beta's writing assert that communism was salvation?
(a) Capitalism could not provide for society's needs.
(b) Man was too weak to save himself.
(c) Capitalism led to Hitlerism.
(d) Man would not think for himself.

2. The atmosphere in a collective society is one of what?
(a) Solidarity and happiness.
(b) Usefulness and action.
(c) Harmony and action.
(d) Strength and unhappiness.

3. Walking in the ruined city in 1945, what emotion did Alpha feel primarily?
(a) Despair.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Anger.
(d) Sadness.

4. In the concentration camp, what kind of life does Beta lead?
(a) Healthy and well-dressed, and brags about it.
(b) With experiences which he never talks about afterward.
(c) Healthy and well-dressed, but cannot escape his guilt.
(d) Hungry and miserable, but happy to be alive.

5. Which Ketman asserts that men do not know how to rule themselves or properly distribute goods?
(a) The Ketman of revolutionary purity.
(b) Sceptical Ketman.
(c) Metaphysical Ketman.
(d) Ethical Ketman.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Beta relates, when Greek prisoners cannot march because they are too weak, how are they first punished?

2. Milosz ends Chapter I with the question:

3. In Witkeiwicz's novel, if man is attuned to the absurd, what does he see?

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

5. What phrase occurs often throughout Chapter 2?

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