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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the mid-twentieth century, many European nations realized that they could be directly influenced by what force?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Communism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) New rulers.

2. The Ketman of revolutionary purity holds that a tyrant's reign may be justified in what circumstances?
(a) If he brings the nation out of its troubles.
(b) For a brief period of time.
(c) In extreme historical circumstances.
(d) If he cannot be deposed.

3. The center planned that all Eastern European countries would speak which language?
(a) Czechoslovakian.
(b) Lithuanian.
(c) Polish.
(d) Russian.

4. Chapter 2 opens with the picture of the Eastern communists looking to the West with what emotion/s?
(a) Anger and confusion.
(b) Unabashed hope.
(c) A mixture of hope and despair.
(d) Disillusionment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The "accidental unmaskings of Ketman," Chapter 3, are called _________ .

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

3. How do the Multi-Bing pills change a man?

4. In 1932, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz wrote a book entitled what?

5. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?

(see the answer key)

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