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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The purpose of Chapter 2 is to compare and contrast what two groups?
(a) Eastern and Western communists.
(b) Communists and capitalists.
(c) Eastern Europe with Eastern Asia.
(d) Communists and fascists.

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

3. As explained in Chapter 1, if a man asks the questions to which the absurd leads him, he reaches what emotional state?
(a) Hatred of the bourgeois.
(b) Hatred of himself.
(c) Despair for society.
(d) Hatred of the proletariat.

4. Milosz explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?
(a) Complete joy.
(b) Some hesitation because of their personal property.
(c) That there is no other hope of salvation.
(d) Some hesitation because of their children.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How do the Multi-Bing pills change a man?

4. Which Ketman asserts that men do not know how to rule themselves or properly distribute goods?

5. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?

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