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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cosmopolitanism, as defined by communism, is what thought?
(a) Admiration for all countries in the communist bloc.
(b) Fear of the Western bourgeois cultures.
(c) Admiration for the Western bourgeois cultures.
(d) Admiration for all cultures.

2. Fifty years of re-education within the party can change entire nations so that they become what?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Utterly subservient.
(c) Sly and vicious.
(d) Docile and obedient.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Milosz compares the American law system to what image?

3. The atmosphere in a collective society is one of what?

4. Milosz illustrates Ketman with the example of what person?

5. The Multi-Bing pills are most tempting to what type of person?

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