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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 5, how is Beta characterized?
(a) Shy and arrogant.
(b) Impossible to understand.
(c) Outspoken and arrogant.
(d) Shy and aloof.

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

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

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

9. As Beta scornfully realized, how could someone have power in Poland?
(a) Overcome the Nazis.
(b) Follow the procedures established by the Polish government.
(c) Destroy all Polish underground resistance.
(d) Seize it by force.

10. Rather than condemning the four men about whom he writes, how does Milosz open Chapter 8?
(a) Saying they were victims of historical circumstance
(b) Saying the situation was too senseless to see the truth.
(c) Saying they were misguided by their education.
(d) Saying they were enslaved by their ways of thinking.

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

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

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

14. Why did Delta begin to write violently anti-Semitic poems?
(a) The Communist Party commanded him to write them.
(b) He cared deeply about the political change going on around him.
(c) He cared more about his audience than about the content.
(d) He had begun to think along those lines.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In Russia, what organization did Gamma and several of his friends create?

5. Apart from his poetry, what was Delta's personality?

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