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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 explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?
(a) Some hesitation because of their personal property.
(b) Complete joy.
(c) Some hesitation because of their children.
(d) That there is no other hope of salvation.

2. Milosz's book The Captive Mind deals with what subject?
(a) Society some time in the future.
(b) What he heard about after living in the United States.
(c) Fictional characters.
(d) What he experienced living in Poland.

3. According to Chapter 4, as the Polish uprising fought the Nazis for control of Warsaw, what did the Red Army do?
(a) Sent troops to help.
(b) Sided with the Nazis.
(c) Waited in Moscow.
(d) Watched from across the river.

4. Which Ketman asserts that men do not know how to rule themselves or properly distribute goods?
(a) Metaphysical Ketman.
(b) Sceptical Ketman.
(c) Ethical Ketman.
(d) The Ketman of revolutionary purity.

5. When did Alpha became a more religious writer?
(a) When he scoffed all Catholic writers.
(b) When he turned his back on Christianity.
(c) When he supported the underground Catholic church.
(d) When he became more fully involved in the church.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Defining good and evil outside of party interests is what type of Ketman?

3. Milosz ends Chapter I with the question:

4. How did Alpha fall into falseness?

5. How does Metaphysical Ketman treat man's mind?

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