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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Russian engineers and doctors ________ Western innovations.
(a) Anticipate.
(b) Ignore.
(c) Copy.
(d) Sell.

2. The "accidental unmaskings of Ketman," Chapter 3, are called _________ .
(a) Perpetuations.
(b) Deviations.
(c) Derivations.
(d) Hallucinations.

3. As far as man's preferences in Western art and literature, what aspect does Milosz refer to?
(a) The inexplicable nature of his choices.
(b) The fickleness of his choices.
(c) The ability of the state to predict his choices.
(d) The ability of the state to imitate the pieces he likes.

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

5. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?
(a) Fascism paves the road for communism.
(b) History has condemned capitalism.
(c) History will again favor the bourgeois.
(d) History favors communism but allows capitalism to remain.

Short Answer Questions

1. As seen in Chapter 2, how does the poet of a communist country write?

2. The most difficult thing for a man of the New Faith to conquer, according to Milosz, is his feeling of what?

3. Witkiewicz thought art and philosophy were living out their last days, and how did he see their end?

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

5. Milosz says that both the old way of life and war-time values are natural if what happens?

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