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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While talking to Beker, who is about to be burned at the crematorium because he is too weak to work, what is Beta's attitude?
(a) Agitated and sad.
(b) Malicious.
(c) Fearful of his own life.
(d) Calm and detached.

3. How did Gamma express his anti-Semitic views?
(a) Only to the people he trusted.
(b) Calmly.
(c) To anyone who would listen.
(d) Violently.

4. In communist thought, where is there no division?
(a) Between worker and peasant.
(b) Between what man does and what he thinks.
(c) Between man and society.
(d) Between man and woman.

5. How were Gamma's interactions with people characterized?
(a) By his drive for power.
(b) With deceit and artifice.
(c) By his loyalty to the party.
(d) With complete honesty.

6. Beta described the concentration camp as he saw it; how should he have described it?
(a) As the Soviets wanted him to see it.
(b) As the Nazis intended.
(c) As the liberating American saw it.
(d) As it really was.

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

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

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

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 could not be assured that it will last.
(c) He could be assured that it will last.
(d) He was returned only for the translation of a Shakespeare poem.

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

12. 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) Bided their time until communism had gained a stronger footing.
(c) Were forced to work only through underground means.
(d) Tried to sway public opinion with writers who were sympathetic to communism.

13. When he spent time in Moscow, what kinds of reports did Delta send back?
(a) Ones that said exactly what the party wanted to hear.
(b) Ones that spoke haltingly of Russian progress.
(c) Ones that glowed with enthusiasm.
(d) Ones that portrayed the city as gloomy.

14. How does Milosz describe Delta's poetry?
(a) An abomination.
(b) A song played too quickly.
(c) A kaleidoscope.
(d) A chubby angel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Beta's writing assert that communism was salvation?

2. Beta wrote poems characterized by what?

3. Why is Christianity the state's primary enemy?

4. How much time did Beta spend in the concentration camp Auschwitz?

5. When do Beta's stories show that people are good?

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