The Captive Mind Quiz Questions | Quiz: Man, This Enemy

Quiz: Man, This Enemy

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

Directions: Circle the correct answer.

1. What kind of mentality do peasants have, according to the state?
a) Low-class.
b) Feudalist.
c) Unrealistic.
d) Middle-class.

2. In Milosz's understanding, the class of the bourgeois is comprised of what people?
a) National companies.
b) Workers and peasants.
c) Workers.
d) Small merchants and craftsmen.

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

4. Why are peasants not particularly dangerous, according to Milosz?
a) They are more easily involved in extensive underground work.
b) The state is the only buyer of what they grow.
c) They...
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