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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Beta the Disappointed Lover.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When do Beta's stories show that people are good?
(a) Inherently.
(b) Only while acting within civilization.
(c) Only when it directly benefits them.
(d) When life has meaning.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Milosz's experience, how does the East view everything from the West?

2. Those who assert that their work is most important, rather than the ends and benefactors of the work, are following which Ketman?

3. When Alpha and Milosz stumbled on a board with the painted words "Lieutenant Zbyszek's road of suffering," what did they meditate on?

4. In a communist country, what is perhaps the best way to ensure one's safety?

5. According to Milosz, nations which have recently come under communist rule feel excitement at first, and then feel what emotion?

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