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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fifty years of re-education within the party can change entire nations so that they become what?
(a) Utterly subservient.
(b) Fearful.
(c) Docile and obedient.
(d) Sly and vicious.

2. The Ketman of revolutionary purity holds that a tyrant's reign may be justified in what circumstances?
(a) If he cannot be deposed.
(b) If he brings the nation out of its troubles.
(c) For a brief period of time.
(d) In extreme historical circumstances.

3. Citizens of communist countries become adept in what skill, according to Milosz?
(a) Acting.
(b) Persuading.
(c) Reasoning.
(d) Imitating.

4. In the eyes of the besieged Pole, what is the only poetry that will last?
(a) Poetry that is most amusing.
(b) Poetry that is most vivid to the reader.
(c) Poetry that is unquestionably real.
(d) Poetry that has most affected the writer.

5. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?
(a) History has condemned capitalism.
(b) History will again favor the bourgeois.
(c) Fascism paves the road for communism.
(d) History favors communism but allows capitalism to remain.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Multi-Bing pills are most tempting to what type of person?

2. Why, as Chapter 2 explains, do Eastern communists look to the West?

3. In the mid-twentieth century, many European nations realized that they could be directly influenced by what force?

4. Milosz's book The Captive Mind deals with what subject?

5. According to Witkiewicz, what role does religion play in modern society?

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