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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. Taking joy that one's life occurs within the stream of life is what type of Ketman?
(a) Aesthetic Ketman.
(b) Ethical Ketman.
(c) Professional Ketman.
(d) The Ketman of revolutionary purity.

2. Milosz says that both the old way of life and war-time values are natural if what happens?
(a) They are within a person's experience.
(b) The church sanctions them.
(c) The government prepares for them.
(d) They come without warning.

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

4. Milosz ends Chapter I with the question:
(a) What the devil does a man need?
(b) How long until man accepts the party?
(c) How long must communism continue?
(d) What else could man ask for?

5. Chapter 2 notes that though it is good to be free from something, how does freedom become better?
(a) For something.
(b) To work.
(c) From many things.
(d) To rest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Gamma's writing weak?

2. In 1932, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz wrote a book entitled what?

3. In light of Beta's poetry, how does Milosz treat the modern artist's potential?

4. Where did the man Gamma grow up?

5. Witkiewicz thought art and philosophy were living out their last days, and how did he see their end?

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