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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) They are forced to modernize.
(d) History has destroyed all other formulae which claim to be unerring.

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

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

4. 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 have no education and thus cannot retaliate.
(d) They are more easily involved in extensive underground work.

5. At a fairly young age, how did Beta die?
(a) By suicide.
(b) By an unknown assassin.
(c) At the hands of the communists.
(d) At the hands of the Nazis.

6. 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 an outspoken adversary of communism.
(c) He had become even more afraid, following his time in the concentration camp.
(d) He hadn't changed.

7. How can the relationship between Gamma and the author be described?
(a) A deep friendship.
(b) A game.
(c) A love affair.
(d) An acquaintanceship.

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

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

10. 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.

11. After coming to power, in 1945, the Party recognized that the best way to control a nation is through what force?
(a) Spies and informers.
(b) Brute force.
(c) The written and spoken word.
(d) Parades and speeches.

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

13. Beta wrote poems characterized by what?
(a) Crying out to God for deliverance.
(b) Leaning on the poet's weak faith in an effort to flee death.
(c) Lack of faith and the facing of death as reality.
(d) Taking bitter joy in the despair of the poet's surroundings.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Catholic Communists gradually lose everything except what aspect?

3. As the Polish fought the Germans for control of Warsaw near the end of the war, how did a few people manage to survive?

4. As Beta relates, when Greek prisoners cannot march because they are too weak, how are they first punished?

5. The state methods of teaching give the illusion of what?

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