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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 did Alpha fall into falseness?
(a) By living arrogantly.
(b) By completely isolating himself.
(c) By living among the wrong people.
(d) By living among ideas of people.

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

3. When a man looks to the West, why does he not have clear insight?
(a) He cannot be realistic.
(b) Life in the East has drastically shaped his view.
(c) His emotions interfere.
(d) The party center obscures the truth.

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

5. The Ketman of revolutionary purity holds that a tyrant's reign may be justified in what circumstances?
(a) For a brief period of time.
(b) If he cannot be deposed.
(c) In extreme historical circumstances.
(d) If he brings the nation out of its troubles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Milosz's experience, how does a man change under communist rule?

2. Milosz compares the American law system to what image?

3. According to Chapter 4, as the Polish uprising fought the Nazis for control of Warsaw, what did the Red Army do?

4. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?

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

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