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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In cycles that lasted several days, what would Delta do?
(a) Drink alcohol.
(b) Write his poems.
(c) Take drugs.
(d) Walk the streets.

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

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Party dialecticians change the Method when necessary?

2. Beta wrote poems characterized by what?

3. How does Milosz describe Delta's poetry?

4. According to Chapter 8, how does communism define the reactionary?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Milosz calls Beta's reaction to the concentration camp life sadistic. How is this true?

2. Milosz states that the goals of the workers are far different from those of the state. How is this so?

3. Delta, in wandering the roads in France, met people from many different nations. How did this universal migration prepare the way even more for communist rule?

4. Why is Gamma called "the slave of history"? Whose interests does he serve?

5. How are the peasants, in several ways, the most helpless class of people?

6. Rather than blaming these four men for the choices they made, Milosz says they were slaves to history. How is this true?

7. How were Beta and the people of his generation fallen into dark hopelessness?

8. Milosz opens Chapter VI with a description of Vilna as it existed during his childhood. Is this simply to introduce Gamma or is there another reason?

9. "Still, it was not easy to become a communist, for communism meant a complete revision of one's concepts of nationality " (pg. 147). How was this true?

10. Beta's anger toward mankind became directed toward a fear of self-deception. How did this happen?

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