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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 8, how does communism define the reactionary?
(a) Acts contrary to party principles.
(b) Reverts to the traditional way of thinking.
(c) Is incapable of seeing how everything is interdependent.
(d) Refuses to agree wholeheartedly with the party.

2. In Chapter 5, how is Beta characterized?
(a) Impossible to understand.
(b) Shy and arrogant.
(c) Shy and aloof.
(d) Outspoken and arrogant.

3. What happened when Beta's artistic talent moved to the furthest boundaries of communist dictates?
(a) Words and individual man lost all meaning.
(b) Words could no longer move him to action.
(c) It could not be satisfied, and he left the party.
(d) The words he wrote were the only things he knew.

4. What did Gamma's second wife wear?
(a) Heavy Russian boots.
(b) Dainty calfskin shoes.
(c) Thick Polish shoes.
(d) Nothing on her feet.

5. In Chapter 8, Milosz explains that the totalitarian states places such emotional strain on its citizens that what occurs?
(a) The strain itself determines their actions.
(b) They cannot survive long as individuals.
(c) They will cease to think for themselves.
(d) The people cannot be responsible for their actions.

6. Delta would have fit well into what time period?
(a) Medieval monks.
(b) Wandering jesters.
(c) Roman gladiators.
(d) Egyptian kings.

7. Beta remained bitter because he was unable to see what?
(a) Society's reasons for action.
(b) Man in relation to his fellow man.
(c) The purpose of action within a community.
(d) Individual man apart from society.

8. Why did Beta's writing assert that communism was salvation?
(a) Capitalism led to Hitlerism.
(b) Man would not think for himself.
(c) Capitalism could not provide for society's needs.
(d) Man was too weak to save himself.

9. When man is faced with constant death and when life seems meaningless, how does dialectical materialism seem?
(a) Mathematical and calculating.
(b) Useless and outmoded.
(c) Mysterious and full of meaning.
(d) Like a refuge.

10. As Beta scornfully realized, how could someone have power in Poland?
(a) Follow the procedures established by the Polish government.
(b) Seize it by force.
(c) Overcome the Nazis.
(d) Destroy all Polish underground resistance.

11. What was the title of Beta's first book?
(a) The Stone and Sky.
(b) The Shining Sun.
(c) The Stony World.
(d) The Stony Ground.

12. As Milosz witnessed, why was becoming a communist a difficult decision?
(a) A person renounced his sense of nationalism.
(b) A person gave up all his personal property.
(c) A person became subject to the whims of the bourgeois.
(d) A person renounced his sense of personality.

13. Why are peasants not particularly dangerous, according to Milosz?
(a) The state is the only buyer of what they grow.
(b) They are happy with their lives.
(c) They have no education and thus cannot retaliate.
(d) They are more easily involved in extensive underground work.

14. In the people's democracies, according the Chapter 8, what does the most serious battle concern?
(a) Control of man's mind.
(b) Manipulation of historical context.
(c) The balance of power.
(d) Control of man's spirit.

15. As the NKVD began mass deportation, how did Gamma write communist propaganda?
(a) In support of the deportations.
(b) Because, by doing it he could save his family.
(c) Even as his family was deported to Siberia.
(d) To keep from being deported himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the end result of Gamma's poetry?

2. Catholic Communists gradually lose everything except what aspect?

3. The last time Milosz saw Beta, how did the unassuming poet look?

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

5. Why are workers told that it is a crime to strike?

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