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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Milosz compares the American law system to what image?
(a) A man alone on a log raft.
(b) People in a raft paddling different directions.
(c) A man drowning at sea.
(d) A powerful ship.

2. How prevalent is National Ketman?
(a) Limited to the people who have no power within the party.
(b) Limited to the upper circles of the party.
(c) Not of concern to the center.
(d) Widespread throughout communist society.

3. Chapter 2 opens with the picture of the Eastern communists looking to the West with what emotion/s?
(a) A mixture of hope and despair.
(b) Anger and confusion.
(c) Unabashed hope.
(d) Disillusionment.

4. 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 proletariat.
(b) Hatred of himself.
(c) Despair for society.
(d) Hatred of the bourgeois.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?

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

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

4. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?

5. Witkiewicz's book dealt solely with what aspect of society?

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