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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 traditional right and Soviet left.
(b) Pro-Semitic and anti-Semitic.
(c) The capitalists and communists.
(d) The nationalistic right and socialist left.

2. How did Delta return to his wife in Poland?
(a) Without a single penny.
(b) With a girlfriend he'd brought from Brussels.
(c) Completely sober.
(d) With a girl he'd picked up at the Polish border.

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

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

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

6. How does Milosz describe Delta's poetry?
(a) An abomination.
(b) A kaleidoscope.
(c) A chubby angel.
(d) A song played too quickly.

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

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

9. In the concentration camp, what kind of life does Beta lead?
(a) Healthy and well-dressed, but cannot escape his guilt.
(b) Healthy and well-dressed, and brags about it.
(c) Hungry and miserable, but happy to be alive.
(d) With experiences which he never talks about afterward.

10. What was the title of Beta's first book?
(a) The Shining Sun.
(b) The Stony Ground.
(c) The Stony World.
(d) The Stone and Sky.

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

12. When someone asked about his family and origins, how would Delta answer?
(a) Go into great detail about his hometown.
(b) Fall silent.
(c) Tell a different story every time.
(d) Answer questions about his town but not about his family.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Beta remained bitter because he was unable to see what?

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

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

4. As Chapter 8 briefly explains, how does the State regard the propertied class?

5. What did Gamma's second wife wear?

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