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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Delta, the Troubadour.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 3, how does Milosz succinctly define Ketman?
(a) Against the state.
(b) For the benefit of mankind.
(c) Against something.
(d) In the name of the state.

2. Which Ketman asserts that men do not know how to rule themselves or properly distribute goods?
(a) Metaphysical Ketman.
(b) Sceptical Ketman.
(c) Ethical Ketman.
(d) The Ketman of revolutionary purity.

3. How did Delta return to his wife in Poland?
(a) Completely sober.
(b) With a girl he'd picked up at the Polish border.
(c) Without a single penny.
(d) With a girlfriend he'd brought from Brussels.

4. Those who assert that their work is most important, rather than the ends and benefactors of the work, are following which Ketman?
(a) Aesthetic Ketman
(b) Sceptical Ketman
(c) Ethical Ketman.
(d) Professional Ketman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, how is Beta characterized?

2. When do Beta's stories show that people are good?

3. Within communist countries, it is not important what a man says but:

4. When he spent time in Moscow, what kinds of reports did Delta send back?

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

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