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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 the Western bourgeois cultures.
(b) Fear of the Western bourgeois cultures.
(c) Admiration for all cultures.
(d) Admiration for all countries in the communist bloc.

2. Milosz's book The Captive Mind deals with what subject?
(a) What he experienced living in Poland.
(b) Fictional characters.
(c) Society some time in the future.
(d) What he heard about after living in the United States.

3. According to the center, contradictions ___________ in the minds of its citizens.
(a) Are stamped out immediately.
(b) Do not exist.
(c) Are taught according to policy.
(d) Are allowed to remain.

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

5. What phrase occurs often throughout Chapter 2?
(a) The venerable West.
(b) The horrific West.
(c) The decadent West.
(d) The cosmopolitan West.

Short Answer Questions

1. The center planned that all Eastern European countries would speak which language?

2. How does the Eastern communist regard everything from the West?

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

4. In order to kept his apartment and good political standing, the man practicing aesthetic Ketman is willing to do what?

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

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