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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the state take advantage of professional Ketman?
(a) It exploits the workers.
(b) It has other, more pressing concerns.
(c) It needs doctors and engineers.
(d) The problem is minimal.

2. Walking in the ruined city in 1945, what emotion did Alpha feel primarily?
(a) Anger.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Despair.
(d) Sadness.

3. Fifty years of re-education within the party can change entire nations so that they become what?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Docile and obedient.
(c) Sly and vicious.
(d) Utterly subservient.

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

5. In the eyes of the besieged Pole, what is the only poetry that will last?
(a) Poetry that is most vivid to the reader.
(b) Poetry that is unquestionably real.
(c) Poetry that is most amusing.
(d) Poetry that has most affected the writer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Milosz compares the Method to what animal?

2. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?

3. Every man considers his mode of life as what?

4. In a communist country, what is perhaps the best way to ensure one's safety?

5. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?

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