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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Within communist countries, it is not important what a man says but:
(a) What he wanted to say.
(b) How it is received.
(c) Who hears him.
(d) How he says it.

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

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

4. What event did Alpha and Milosz narrowly miss one day as they were returning from the train station?
(a) The outbreak of a street fight.
(b) Being run over by a truck full of Jews bound for Auschwitz.
(c) Being captured in the first man-hunt for Auschwitz.
(d) Being searched by Nazi squads.

5. Why did Alpha eventually become a communist?
(a) He thought it was best for his family.
(b) He was tricked into it.
(c) He had no other choice.
(d) The party threatened his life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fifty years of re-education within the party can change entire nations so that they become what?

2. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?

3. What school of thought gave Alpha the tragic language he needed?

4. The "accidental unmaskings of Ketman," Chapter 3, are called _________ .

5. Milosz compares the American law system to what image?

(see the answer key)

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