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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Russia, what organization did Gamma and several of his friends create?
(a) The Society of Enlightened Communist Workers.
(b) The Society for the Well-Being of Mankind.
(c) The Union of Workers.
(d) The Union of Patriots.

3. As detailed in Chapter 6, what was the first maxim of the communist rule as it established power in a newly-conquered country?
(a) Impose educational reforms.
(b) Crush opposition at all cost.
(c) Set minimal demands.
(d) Make the people happy so they agree.

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

5. As Milosz witnessed, why was becoming a communist a difficult decision?
(a) A person became subject to the whims of the bourgeois.
(b) A person renounced his sense of nationalism.
(c) A person gave up all his personal property.
(d) A person renounced his sense of personality.

6. In Chapter 8, how does the party treat whatever is not expressed?
(a) It is most dangerous.
(b) It does not exist.
(c) It is not important.
(d) It is not dangerous.

7. In the context of Chapter 8, peasants are divided into three categories so that what happens?
(a) The Center can better govern them.
(b) Mutual hatred grows among them.
(c) They form ties outside their social class.
(d) Work is done most efficiently.

8. Beta remained bitter because he was unable to see what?
(a) Individual man apart from society.
(b) The purpose of action within a community.
(c) Man in relation to his fellow man.
(d) Society's reasons for action.

9. As he got older, how did Gamma feel about his life?
(a) He had wasted his youth on reckless living.
(b) He had become too comfortable with his accomplishments.
(c) He had not devoted enough energy to the party.
(d) He had wasted his youth in service of the party.

10. Why are peasants not particularly dangerous, according to Milosz?
(a) They are happy with their lives.
(b) The state is the only buyer of what they grow.
(c) They are more easily involved in extensive underground work.
(d) They have no education and thus cannot retaliate.

11. Often when Milosz sees women walking through the streets of Paris, what does he remember?
(a) An unknown girl run over by an SS truck.
(b) A Jewish girl shot while running for her life.
(c) A Polish girl brushing her hair.
(d) His dead wife.

12. Why do Party dialecticians change the Method when necessary?
(a) They are forced to modernize.
(b) Reality proves the Method to be unworkable.
(c) History has destroyed all other formulae which claim to be unerring.
(d) They want to stay one step ahead of the reactionaries.

13. The last time Milosz saw Beta, how did the unassuming poet look?
(a) He had become self-assured and thoroughly political.
(b) He had become even more afraid, following his time in the concentration camp.
(c) He had become an outspoken adversary of communism.
(d) He hadn't changed.

14. What was the end result of Gamma's poetry?
(a) Well-written.
(b) Careful word arrangements that said nothing.
(c) Poorly written, but heart-felt.
(d) Moving and deeply felt.

15. When a man refuses to become a shock-worker in a factory, what does he soon find?
(a) He is imprisoned until his views change.
(b) He is fired, and cannot provide for his family.
(c) He is denied the privileges of better work or vacation.
(d) He is demoted until he can learn respect.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the NKVD began mass deportation, how did Gamma write communist propaganda?

2. Why are workers told that it is a crime to strike?

3. In the concentration camp, what is Beta's job?

4. What happened when Beta's artistic talent moved to the furthest boundaries of communist dictates?

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

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