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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the war, how was Alpha was received by Polish communists?
(a) On the condition he write what they wanted.
(b) Skeptically.
(c) With hostility.
(d) With open arms.

2. 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 the bourgeois.
(b) Hatred of himself.
(c) Despair for society.
(d) Hatred of the proletariat.

3. How prevalent is National Ketman?
(a) Limited to the people who have no power within the party.
(b) Not of concern to the center.
(c) Limited to the upper circles of the party.
(d) Widespread throughout communist society.

4. According to Chapter 4, as the Polish uprising fought the Nazis for control of Warsaw, what did the Red Army do?
(a) Sided with the Nazis.
(b) Sent troops to help.
(c) Watched from across the river.
(d) Waited in Moscow.

5. In Chapter 4, who is Alpha, the Moralist?
(a) A little-known prose writer, a good friend of Milosz.
(b) A well-known prose writer, a good friend of Milosz.
(c) A well-known poet, a good friend of Milosz.
(d) A well-known prose writer not personally known to Milosz.

6. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?
(a) Individual art has intrinsic value.
(b) Poets may write what content they choose as long as it follows the same form.
(c) Individual art outside the party lines has no lasting value.
(d) The state only slightly moderates art.

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

8. Russian engineers and doctors ________ Western innovations.
(a) Anticipate.
(b) Sell.
(c) Ignore.
(d) Copy.

9. As explained in Chapter 2, the party considers _________ one of the highest virtues.
(a) Silence.
(b) Compliance.
(c) Informing.
(d) Restraint.

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

11. How do the inhabitants of communist countries appear?
(a) Predominantly tall and well-dressed.
(b) Diverse according to their racial heritages.
(c) Mostly Aryan, following the decimation of the Jewish population in World War II.
(d) Uniformly short and stocky.

12. The atmosphere in a collective society is one of what?
(a) Usefulness and action.
(b) Solidarity and happiness.
(c) Strength and unhappiness.
(d) Harmony and action.

13. In the 1940s, once they were freed of the past, how did the Eastern countries think?
(a) They had no choice but the New Faith.
(b) They regretted their choice.
(c) They modified capitalism to fit their needs.
(d) They returned to a feudalist system.

14. Multi-Bing pills establish ________ foundations rather than _________ .
(a) Aesthetic, religious.
(b) Scientific, religious.
(c) Materialistic, aesthetic.
(d) Philosophical, scientific.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By standards of the East, as compared to the West, how is anyone with talent treated?

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

3. How does the Eastern communist regard everything from the West?

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

5. When a man looks to the West, why does he not have clear insight?

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