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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During World War II, how did the nearness of death affect the Poles' lives?
(a) It instilled terror.
(b) It destroyed all sense of shame.
(c) It made them ambivalent to the future.
(d) It created a daily thankfulness for life.

2. The people who practice metaphysical Ketman are often former ____________ .
(a) Humanists.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Communists.
(d) Catholics.

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

4. Milosz's book The Captive Mind deals with what subject?
(a) Society some time in the future.
(b) What he heard about after living in the United States.
(c) What he experienced living in Poland.
(d) Fictional characters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, as Chapter 2 explains, do Eastern communists look to the West?

2. How does Metaphysical Ketman treat man's mind?

3. Chapter 2 opens with the picture of the Eastern communists looking to the West with what emotion/s?

4. How do the inhabitants of communist countries appear?

5. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?

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