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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Eastern communist regard everything from the West?
(a) With strong criticism.
(b) With deep confusion.
(c) With antipathy.
(d) With loud enthusiasm.

2. Milosz asserts that the man of the New Faith has the greatest fear of what action?
(a) Acting based on others' decisions.
(b) Thinking for himself.
(c) Losing the capability to reason.
(d) Thinking for others.

3. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?
(a) Earthy.
(b) Timely.
(c) Mathematical.
(d) Heavenly.

4. According to several examples from Eastern history, how is Ketman a way of living?
(a) Flaunting heresy.
(b) Appearing obedient while exposing heresy in others.
(c) Remaining completely obedient.
(d) Appearing obedient while harboring heresy.

5. Defining good and evil outside of party interests is what type of Ketman?
(a) Ethical Ketman.
(b) Sceptical Ketman.
(c) Aesthetic Ketman.
(d) Metaphysical Ketman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aesthetic Ketman spreads because the citizens crave what aspect of daily life?

2. How do the inhabitants of communist countries appear?

3. Chapter 2 notes that though it is good to be free from something, how does freedom become better?

4. In 1932, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz wrote a book entitled what?

5. As explained in Chapter 1, if a man asks the questions to which the absurd leads him, he reaches what emotional state?

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