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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Witkeiwicz's novel, if man is attuned to the absurd, what does he see?
(a) The state is meaningless.
(b) There is no hope of salvation, either earthly or heavenly.
(c) People's individual lives are meaningless.
(d) His own life is worthless.

4. Milosz explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?
(a) Some hesitation because of their personal property.
(b) Some hesitation because of their children.
(c) Complete joy.
(d) That there is no other hope of salvation.

5. The center planned that all Eastern European countries would speak which language?
(a) Polish.
(b) Czechoslovakian.
(c) Russian.
(d) Lithuanian.

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to kept his apartment and good political standing, the man practicing aesthetic Ketman is willing to do what?

2. Why did the new communist government have a difficult time in Poland after World War II?

3. Which Ketman asserts that men do not know how to rule themselves or properly distribute goods?

4. According to Chapter 4, as the Polish uprising fought the Nazis for control of Warsaw, what did the Red Army do?

5. In Chapter 4, once the Nazis took over a country, how did they treat the printing presses?

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