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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Within communist countries, it is not important what a man says but:
(a) Who hears him.
(b) How it is received.
(c) What he wanted to say.
(d) How he says it.

2. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?
(a) Communism is their only salvation.
(b) Feudalism is their only salvation.
(c) They are perfectly happy with their lives.
(d) Change must come.

3. Citizens of communist countries become adept in what skill, according to Milosz?
(a) Reasoning.
(b) Imitating.
(c) Acting.
(d) Persuading.

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

5. Why does the state take advantage of professional Ketman?
(a) It needs doctors and engineers.
(b) The problem is minimal.
(c) It exploits the workers.
(d) It has other, more pressing concerns.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1940s, once they were freed of the past, how did the Eastern countries think?

2. When a man looks to the West, why does he not have clear insight?

3. Russian engineers and doctors ________ Western innovations.

4. During World War II, how did the nearness of death affect the Poles' lives?

5. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?

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