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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1932, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz wrote a book entitled what?
(a) Insecurity.
(b) Incongruity.
(c) Insatiability.
(d) Instability.

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

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

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

5. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?
(a) Heavenly.
(b) Timely.
(c) Earthy.
(d) Mathematical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Milosz says that an individual has no more significance to the muse of history than what object?

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

3. In the 1940s, once they were freed of the past, how did the Eastern countries think?

4. In Milosz's experience, how does a man change under communist rule?

5. Russian engineers and doctors ________ Western innovations.

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