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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Gamma, the Slave of History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Multi-Bing pills establish ________ foundations rather than _________ .
(a) Materialistic, aesthetic.
(b) Aesthetic, religious.
(c) Philosophical, scientific.
(d) Scientific, religious.

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

3. 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.

4. Milosz asserts that the man of the New Faith has the greatest fear of what action?
(a) Thinking for others.
(b) Losing the capability to reason.
(c) Acting based on others' decisions.
(d) Thinking for himself.

5. Why does the state take advantage of professional Ketman?
(a) It exploits the workers.
(b) The problem is minimal.
(c) It has other, more pressing concerns.
(d) It needs doctors and engineers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1932, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz wrote a book entitled what?

2. In Witkeiwicz's novel, if man is attuned to the absurd, what does he see?

3. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?

4. Milosz illustrates Ketman with the example of what person?

5. How does the Eastern communist regard everything from the West?

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