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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Gamma express his anti-Semitic views?
(a) To anyone who would listen.
(b) Violently.
(c) Calmly.
(d) Only to the people he trusted.

3. In the context of Chapter 8, peasants are divided into three categories so that what happens?
(a) The Center can better govern them.
(b) Mutual hatred grows among them.
(c) Work is done most efficiently.
(d) They form ties outside their social class.

4. Because he believed in earthly salvation, what did Beta argue?
(a) Promises of heavenly salvation are false.
(b) History has no force in man's present struggles.
(c) Only man can bring about his own happiness.
(d) Anyone opposing mankind's happiness is evil.

5. In Chapter 8, how does the party treat whatever is not expressed?
(a) It is not dangerous.
(b) It does not exist.
(c) It is most dangerous.
(d) It is not important.

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

7. Why are workers told that it is a crime to strike?
(a) They are working for the state, which is to say for themselves.
(b) The highest goal of state factories is efficiency.
(c) It has drastic negative effects on the entire nation.
(d) It is not in the best interests of the state.

8. Chapter 6 opens with a picture of Vilna, which is a city of __________ .
(a) Forests.
(b) Beaches.
(c) Gardens.
(d) Streams.

9. Why is Christianity the state's primary enemy?
(a) It fosters subservience.
(b) It creates class divisions.
(c) It fosters skepticism.
(d) It encourages radicalism.

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

11. As Chapter 8 briefly explains, how does the State regard the propertied class?
(a) Most important.
(b) Least hopeful for reform.
(c) Least important.
(d) Least likely to rebel.

12. In communist thought, where is there no division?
(a) Between what man does and what he thinks.
(b) Between man and society.
(c) Between worker and peasant.
(d) Between man and woman.

13. What was the end result of Gamma's poetry?
(a) Well-written.
(b) Poorly written, but heart-felt.
(c) Moving and deeply felt.
(d) Careful word arrangements that said nothing.

14. Rather than condemning the four men about whom he writes, how does Milosz open Chapter 8?
(a) Saying they were misguided by their education.
(b) Saying the situation was too senseless to see the truth.
(c) Saying they were victims of historical circumstance
(d) Saying they were enslaved by their ways of thinking.

15. How does Milosz describe Delta's poetry?
(a) A kaleidoscope.
(b) An abomination.
(c) A song played too quickly.
(d) A chubby angel.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Russia, what organization did Gamma and several of his friends create?

3. What was the title of Delta's most unusual poem, which spoke in terms best understood in a dream?

4. In cycles that lasted several days, what would Delta do?

5. What was the result of this group created by Gamma and his friends?

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