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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Metaphysical Ketman treat man's mind?
(a) He loses the need for metaphysical answers.
(b) He thinks rationally and materialistically.
(c) He thinks religiously.
(d) He thinks in terms of the present.

2. Milosz admits that he has great admiration for what people or force?
(a) The people who bring about change.
(b) The impersonal forces of history.
(c) The people who fight evil.
(d) The philosophers who prepare the way for change.

3. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?
(a) Individual art has intrinsic value.
(b) Poets may write what content they choose as long as it follows the same form.
(c) Individual art outside the party lines has no lasting value.
(d) The state only slightly moderates art.

4. As explained in Chapter 1, if a man asks the questions to which the absurd leads him, he reaches what emotional state?
(a) Hatred of himself.
(b) Hatred of the proletariat.
(c) Despair for society.
(d) Hatred of the bourgeois.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Citizens of communist countries become adept in what skill, according to Milosz?

5. By standards of the East, as compared to the West, how is anyone with talent treated?

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