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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Alpha, the Moralist.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Every man considers his mode of life as what?
(a) Necessary.
(b) Unnatural.
(c) Natural.
(d) Destined to change.

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

4. 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 favors communism but allows capitalism to remain.
(d) History will again favor the bourgeois.

5. Multi-Bing pills establish ________ foundations rather than _________ .
(a) Scientific, religious.
(b) Aesthetic, religious.
(c) Materialistic, aesthetic.
(d) Philosophical, scientific.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Taking joy that one's life occurs within the stream of life is what type of Ketman?

3. At the end of Chapter 3, how does Milosz succinctly define Ketman?

4. In the eyes of the besieged Pole, what is the only poetry that will last?

5. In the mid-twentieth century, many European nations realized that they could be directly influenced by what force?

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