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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Delta would have fit well into what time period?
(a) Wandering jesters.
(b) Medieval monks.
(c) Egyptian kings.
(d) Roman gladiators.

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

4. Why was Gamma's writing weak?
(a) Human emotion.
(b) Previous success.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Proper doctrine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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) Control of man's spirit.
(d) Manipulation of historical context.

Short Answer Questions

1. After being captured as a Polish soldier, what happened to Delta?

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

3. In a weekly magazine, Delta published short theater scenes under what title?

4. As he got older, how did Gamma feel about his life?

5. In Chapter 5, how is Beta characterized?

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