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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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) An unknown girl run over by an SS truck.
(d) A Polish girl brushing her hair.

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. When man is faced with constant death and when life seems meaningless, how does dialectical materialism seem?
(a) Useless and outmoded.
(b) Mathematical and calculating.
(c) Mysterious and full of meaning.
(d) Like a refuge.

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

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

13. Apart from his poetry, what was Delta's personality?
(a) Optimistic and cheerful.
(b) Sly and fearful.
(c) Completely deceitful.
(d) Sly and gloomy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After coming to power, in 1945, the Party recognized that the best way to control a nation is through what force?

2. What did Delta, in his enthusiasm, love?

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

4. What was the title of Delta's most unusual poem, which spoke in terms best understood in a dream?

5. Where did the man Gamma grow up?

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