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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the result of this group created by Gamma and his friends?
(a) Disbanded after two years because it lost popularity.
(b) Publicly praised for its faithfulness to communist ideals.
(c) Exiled for trying to usurp power from the center in Moscow.
(d) The beginning of the communist government in Warsaw.

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

3. In cycles that lasted several days, what would Delta do?
(a) Take drugs.
(b) Walk the streets.
(c) Write his poems.
(d) Drink alcohol.

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

5. In Chapter 8, Milosz explains that the totalitarian states places such emotional strain on its citizens that what occurs?
(a) They will cease to think for themselves.
(b) The strain itself determines their actions.
(c) The people cannot be responsible for their actions.
(d) They cannot survive long as individuals.

6. As the Polish fought the Germans for control of Warsaw near the end of the war, how did a few people manage to survive?
(a) Hiding with the underground resistance.
(b) Swimming across the river.
(c) Turning themselves in as prisoners of war.
(d) Hiding in the surrounding forests.

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

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

9. What was the title of Delta's most unusual poem, which spoke in terms best understood in a dream?
(a) Solomon's Ball.
(b) Folk Songs.
(c) The Persian King.
(d) Folk Fair.

10. Why is Christianity the state's primary enemy?
(a) It fosters subservience.
(b) It creates class divisions.
(c) It encourages radicalism.
(d) It fosters skepticism.

11. As the NKVD began mass deportation, how did Gamma write communist propaganda?
(a) Because, by doing it he could save his family.
(b) In support of the deportations.
(c) To keep from being deported himself.
(d) Even as his family was deported to Siberia.

12. In a weekly magazine, Delta published short theater scenes under what title?
(a) Falangist.
(b) Gray Goose.
(c) Green Goose.
(d) Solomon's Ball.

13. What kind of mentality do peasants have, according to the state?
(a) Unrealistic.
(b) Feudalist.
(c) Middle-class.
(d) Low-class.

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

15. In light of Beta's poetry, how does Milosz treat the modern artist's potential?
(a) He follows the artistic traditions of former eras.
(b) He is condemned to inactivity.
(c) He works best without established equilibrium.
(d) He can never know rest or inactivity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Delta would have fit well into what time period?

3. According to Chapter 8, how does communism define the reactionary?

4. In Chapter 5, how is Beta characterized?

5. Chapter 6 opens with a picture of Vilna, which is a city of __________ .

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