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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In light of Beta's poetry, how does Milosz treat the modern artist's potential?
(a) He is condemned to inactivity.
(b) He can never know rest or inactivity.
(c) He follows the artistic traditions of former eras.
(d) He works best without established equilibrium.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How were Gamma's interactions with people characterized?

2. How did Gamma express his anti-Semitic views?

3. Beta described the concentration camp as he saw it; how should he have described it?

4. When someone asked about his family and origins, how would Delta answer?

5. In the concentration camp, what is Beta's job?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Beta's circumstances lead him to a poetry that constantly moved? Why was it restless?

2. Beta's anger toward mankind became directed toward a fear of self-deception. How did this happen?

3. Rather than blaming these four men for the choices they made, Milosz says they were slaves to history. How is this true?

4. Why is Gamma called "the slave of history"? Whose interests does he serve?

5. Gamma did not even try to save his family when they were deported to Siberia. How is this a vivid example of the communist attitude toward individual lives?

6. Milosz calls Beta's reaction to the concentration camp life sadistic. How is this true?

7. Eventually Delta's poems became something of a dream, unreal. How was this inevitable?

8. Milosz states that the goals of the workers are far different from those of the state. How is this so?

9. How was Delta able to play the game that the center demanded of him--and be better at it?

10. Delta, in wandering the roads in France, met people from many different nations. How did this universal migration prepare the way even more for communist rule?

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