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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Milosz says that an individual has no more significance to the muse of history than what object?
(a) An instrument in an orchestra.
(b) A cog in a machine.
(c) An atom in space.
(d) A weed in a field.

2. How did Alpha fall into falseness?
(a) By living arrogantly.
(b) By completely isolating himself.
(c) By living among ideas of people.
(d) By living among the wrong people.

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

4. Within communist countries, it is not important what a man says but:
(a) What he wanted to say.
(b) How he says it.
(c) Who hears him.
(d) How it is received.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Milosz's book The Captive Mind deals with what subject?

2. How prevalent is National Ketman?

3. After the war, how was Alpha was received by Polish communists?

4. In what city did Alpha the Moralist live?

5. Which Ketman asserts that men do not know how to rule themselves or properly distribute goods?

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