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

2. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?
(a) Fascism paves the road for communism.
(b) History will again favor the bourgeois.
(c) History has condemned capitalism.
(d) History favors communism but allows capitalism to remain.

3. When did Alpha became a more religious writer?
(a) When he became more fully involved in the church.
(b) When he supported the underground Catholic church.
(c) When he turned his back on Christianity.
(d) When he scoffed all Catholic writers.

4. As explained in Chapter 2, the party considers _________ one of the highest virtues.
(a) Informing.
(b) Silence.
(c) Compliance.
(d) Restraint.

5. How do the Multi-Bing pills change a man?
(a) They make him more productive in society.
(b) They erase all metaphysical concerns.
(c) They erase vestiges of harmful personality.
(d) They create nervousness and tension.

Short Answer Questions

1. During World War II, how did the nearness of death affect the Poles' lives?

2. Why, as Chapter 2 explains, do Eastern communists look to the West?

3. In the concentration camp, what kind of life does Beta lead?

4. Walking in the ruined city in 1945, what emotion did Alpha feel primarily?

5. At the end of Chapter 3, how does Milosz succinctly define Ketman?

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