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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Alpha, the Moralist.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In order to kept his apartment and good political standing, the man practicing aesthetic Ketman is willing to do what?
(a) Make only the necessary sacrifices.
(b) Promote the party's interests at all costs.
(c) Make any sacrifice or compromise.
(d) Give up his first-born child.

2. The "accidental unmaskings of Ketman," Chapter 3, are called _________ .
(a) Hallucinations.
(b) Perpetuations.
(c) Derivations.
(d) Deviations.

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

4. The people who practice metaphysical Ketman are often former ____________ .
(a) Humanists.
(b) Communists.
(c) Philosophers.
(d) Catholics.

5. As explained in Chapter 1, if a man asks the questions to which the absurd leads him, he reaches what emotional state?
(a) Hatred of himself.
(b) Hatred of the proletariat.
(c) Despair for society.
(d) Hatred of the bourgeois.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How prevalent is National Ketman?

3. The Ketman of revolutionary purity holds that a tyrant's reign may be justified in what circumstances?

4. Multi-Bing pills establish ________ foundations rather than _________ .

5. Citizens of communist countries become adept in what skill, according to Milosz?

(see the answer key)

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