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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As seen in Chapter 2, how does the poet of a communist country write?
(a) For the marching soldiers.
(b) As an ideal citizen.
(c) Exactly what the state tells him.
(d) As himself.

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

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

4. Those who assert that their work is most important, rather than the ends and benefactors of the work, are following which Ketman?
(a) Ethical Ketman.
(b) Professional Ketman.
(c) Sceptical Ketman
(d) Aesthetic Ketman

5. The Multi-Bing pills are most tempting to what type of person?
(a) A merchant.
(b) An intellectual.
(c) A peasant.
(d) A worker.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 3, how does Milosz succinctly define Ketman?

2. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?

3. According the Chapter 2, what does the Method emphasize about change?

4. Defining good and evil outside of party interests is what type of Ketman?

5. As explained in Chapter 1, if a man asks the questions to which the absurd leads him, he reaches what emotional state?

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