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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While living in exile, how did Delta feel?
(a) A poor writer.
(b) Lonely and forgotten.
(c) Popular and well-liked.
(d) A drunkard.

2. How was Delta's cheerful poetry treated?
(a) Ignored by the party.
(b) Mocked by the public.
(c) Put to good use by the party.
(d) Scorned by the party as sentimental.

3. Why was Gamma's writing weak?
(a) Human emotion.
(b) Previous success.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Proper doctrine.

4. What did Delta, in his enthusiasm, love?
(a) The literary cafes.
(b) Crowds and festivals.
(c) The whirlpool of human emotions.
(d) The words of intellectuals.

5. When Delta's writing no longer pleased the party, what happened?
(a) Publishers were instructed not to print his work.
(b) Publishers were instructed to print only the work that showed he had reformed.
(c) He was forced to print only in underground papers.
(d) He was exiled to Siberia for three years in a labor camp.

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

7. Because the Communist Party was at first illegal in Poland, what did party members do?
(a) Had no choice but to rebel against the laws.
(b) Tried to sway public opinion with writers who were sympathetic to communism.
(c) Were forced to work only through underground means.
(d) Bided their time until communism had gained a stronger footing.

8. In Milosz's understanding, the class of the bourgeois is comprised of what people?
(a) Small merchants and craftsmen.
(b) National companies.
(c) Workers and peasants.
(d) Workers.

9. Where did the man Gamma grow up?
(a) The country.
(b) The city.
(c) An eighteenth-century palace.
(d) A party member's home.

10. After two years, Delta returned again to favor, and how did his future look?
(a) He was given a ten-year contract.
(b) He was returned only for the translation of a Shakespeare poem.
(c) He could not be assured that it will last.
(d) He could be assured that it will last.

11. After being captured as a Polish soldier, what happened to Delta?
(a) Spent five years in a German labor camp.
(b) Was conscripted as a Russian soldier.
(c) Was released because he was too weak to work.
(d) Spent five years as a Russian prisoner.

12. How much time did Beta spend in the concentration camp Auschwitz?
(a) Three years.
(b) The rest of his life.
(c) Two months.
(d) Two years.

13. What happened when Beta's artistic talent moved to the furthest boundaries of communist dictates?
(a) The words he wrote were the only things he knew.
(b) Words and individual man lost all meaning.
(c) Words could no longer move him to action.
(d) It could not be satisfied, and he left the party.

14. In the people's democracies, according the Chapter 8, what does the most serious battle concern?
(a) Manipulation of historical context.
(b) Control of man's mind.
(c) The balance of power.
(d) Control of man's spirit.

15. The state methods of teaching give the illusion of what?
(a) Historical right.
(b) Complete knowledge.
(c) Complete power.
(d) A mysterious unknown.

Short Answer Questions

1. As he got older, how did Gamma feel about his life?

2. After coming to power, in 1945, the Party recognized that the best way to control a nation is through what force?

3. What kind of mentality do peasants have, according to the state?

4. During Gamma's youth, Poland gradually separated along what lines?

5. Beta wrote poems characterized by what?

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