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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aesthetic Ketman spreads because the citizens crave what aspect of daily life?
(a) Strangeness.
(b) Superficiality.
(c) Similarity.
(d) Sameness.

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

3. Milosz illustrates Ketman with the example of what person?
(a) A communist.
(b) A Shiite theologian.
(c) An average housewife.
(d) A Muslim.

4. Often when Milosz sees women walking through the streets of Paris, what does he remember?
(a) A Jewish girl shot while running for her life.
(b) His dead wife.
(c) An unknown girl run over by an SS truck.
(d) A Polish girl brushing her hair.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As explained in Chapter 2, the party considers _________ one of the highest virtues.

2. Taking joy that one's life occurs within the stream of life is what type of Ketman?

3. How much time did Beta spend in the concentration camp Auschwitz?

4. Apart from his poetry, what was Delta's personality?

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

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