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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ketman.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Milosz ends Chapter I with the question:
(a) How long until man accepts the party?
(b) How long must communism continue?
(c) What the devil does a man need?
(d) What else could man ask for?

2. In Milosz's experience, how does a man change under communist rule?
(a) He gains new habits slowly and painfully.
(b) He sees the new rule as unnatural.
(c) He asks questions so he can understand the new government.
(d) He gains new habits quickly and asks no questions.

3. The Ketman of revolutionary purity holds that a tyrant's reign may be justified in what circumstances?
(a) If he cannot be deposed.
(b) For a brief period of time.
(c) If he brings the nation out of its troubles.
(d) In extreme historical circumstances.

4. Witkiewicz thought art and philosophy were living out their last days, and how did he see their end?
(a) He couldn't wait until they were gone.
(b) He found life without them unbearable.
(c) He tried to speed their demise.
(d) He tried to slow their decay.

5. How does Metaphysical Ketman treat man's mind?
(a) He thinks religiously.
(b) He loses the need for metaphysical answers.
(c) He thinks in terms of the present.
(d) He thinks rationally and materialistically.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Art and literature of the party prove to the intellectual that what is true about the world?

3. Why does the state take advantage of professional Ketman?

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

5. Milosz's book The Captive Mind deals with what subject?

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