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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 most difficult thing for a man of the New Faith to conquer, according to Milosz, is his feeling of what?
(a) Trepidation.
(b) Elation.
(c) Suspicion.
(d) Guilt.

2. The center planned that all Eastern European countries would speak which language?
(a) Russian.
(b) Czechoslovakian.
(c) Polish.
(d) Lithuanian.

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

4. Harboring contempt for Russia is what type of Ketman?
(a) Sceptical Ketman.
(b) Professional Ketman.
(c) National Ketman.
(d) Ethical Ketman.

5. In what city did Alpha the Moralist live?
(a) Vilna.
(b) Marek.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Warsaw.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Milosz, nations which have recently come under communist rule feel excitement at first, and then feel what emotion?

2. Walking in the ruined city in 1945, what emotion did Alpha feel primarily?

3. In order to kept his apartment and good political standing, the man practicing aesthetic Ketman is willing to do what?

4. The "accidental unmaskings of Ketman," Chapter 3, are called _________ .

5. Milosz asserts that the man of the New Faith has the greatest fear of what action?

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