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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a weekly magazine, Delta published short theater scenes under what title?
(a) Falangist.
(b) Gray Goose.
(c) Green Goose.
(d) Solomon's Ball.

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

3. Catholic Communists gradually lose everything except what aspect?
(a) A basic belief in God.
(b) The language of religion.
(c) Their sense of guilt.
(d) Their trust in the Virgin Mary.

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

5. As the Polish fought the Germans for control of Warsaw near the end of the war, how did a few people manage to survive?
(a) Turning themselves in as prisoners of war.
(b) Hiding in the surrounding forests.
(c) Hiding with the underground resistance.
(d) Swimming across the river.

6. What was the title of Delta's most unusual poem, which spoke in terms best understood in a dream?
(a) Folk Songs.
(b) Solomon's Ball.
(c) The Persian King.
(d) Folk Fair.

7. As detailed in Chapter 6, what was the first maxim of the communist rule as it established power in a newly-conquered country?
(a) Crush opposition at all cost.
(b) Make the people happy so they agree.
(c) Set minimal demands.
(d) Impose educational reforms.

8. When Delta's writing no longer pleased the party, what happened?
(a) He was exiled to Siberia for three years in a labor camp.
(b) Publishers were instructed to print only the work that showed he had reformed.
(c) He was forced to print only in underground papers.
(d) Publishers were instructed not to print his work.

9. While living in exile, how did Delta feel?
(a) Popular and well-liked.
(b) Lonely and forgotten.
(c) A drunkard.
(d) A poor writer.

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

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

12. As Beta relates, when Greek prisoners cannot march because they are too weak, how are they first punished?
(a) With three days' hard labor.
(b) With beatings.
(c) With sticks tied to their legs.
(d) With death.

13. Why did Delta begin to write violently anti-Semitic poems?
(a) The Communist Party commanded him to write them.
(b) He cared more about his audience than about the content.
(c) He had begun to think along those lines.
(d) He cared deeply about the political change going on around him.

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

15. Apart from his poetry, what was Delta's personality?
(a) Sly and fearful.
(b) Sly and gloomy.
(c) Completely deceitful.
(d) Optimistic and cheerful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of mentality do peasants have, according to the state?

2. Why are peasants not particularly dangerous, according to Milosz?

3. After two years, Delta returned again to favor, and how did his future look?

4. In Milosz's understanding, the class of the bourgeois is comprised of what people?

5. When he spent time in Moscow, what kinds of reports did Delta send back?

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