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

2. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?
(a) They are perfectly happy with their lives.
(b) Change must come.
(c) Communism is their only salvation.
(d) Feudalism is their only salvation.

3. The last time Milosz saw Beta, how did the unassuming poet look?
(a) He hadn't changed.
(b) He had become self-assured and thoroughly political.
(c) He had become even more afraid, following his time in the concentration camp.
(d) He had become an outspoken adversary of communism.

4. In Witkeiwicz's novel, if man is attuned to the absurd, what does he see?
(a) His own life is worthless.
(b) The state is meaningless.
(c) There is no hope of salvation, either earthly or heavenly.
(d) People's individual lives are meaningless.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fifty years of re-education within the party can change entire nations so that they become what?

2. When the Red Army came into Poland in 1945, how were writers treated?

3. When a man looks to the West, why does he not have clear insight?

4. What was the title of Beta's first book?

5. How did Alpha fall into falseness?

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