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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During Gamma's youth, Poland gradually separated along what lines?
(a) The nationalistic right and socialist left.
(b) Pro-Semitic and anti-Semitic.
(c) The traditional right and Soviet left.
(d) The capitalists and communists.

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

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

4. What happened when Beta's artistic talent moved to the furthest boundaries of communist dictates?
(a) It could not be satisfied, and he left the party.
(b) Words could no longer move him to action.
(c) The words he wrote were the only things he knew.
(d) Words and individual man lost all meaning.

5. Why are workers told that it is a crime to strike?
(a) It has drastic negative effects on the entire nation.
(b) The highest goal of state factories is efficiency.
(c) They are working for the state, which is to say for themselves.
(d) It is not in the best interests of the state.

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

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

8. 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) Malicious.
(b) Calm and detached.
(c) Agitated and sad.
(d) Fearful of his own life.

9. What view of Poland's past did Delta's poetry present?
(a) The past held no hope of peace or rest.
(b) The past was close to dying out.
(c) The past had the power to save her people from communism.
(d) The past provided an alternative to communism.

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

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

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

13. When Delta's writing no longer pleased the party, what happened?
(a) Publishers were instructed not to print his work.
(b) He was forced to print only in underground papers.
(c) He was exiled to Siberia for three years in a labor camp.
(d) Publishers were instructed to print only the work that showed he had reformed.

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

15. In the concentration camp, what is Beta's job?
(a) Unloading Jews from the box-cars.
(b) Removing bodies from the gas chambers.
(c) Rationing food to the prisoners.
(d) Directing Jews to the gas chambers or work.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How was Delta's cheerful poetry treated?

3. How did Delta return to his wife in Poland?

4. In the people's democracies, according the Chapter 8, what does the most serious battle concern?

5. Beta wrote poems characterized by what?

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