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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a man looks to the West, why does he not have clear insight?
(a) Life in the East has drastically shaped his view.
(b) He cannot be realistic.
(c) The party center obscures the truth.
(d) His emotions interfere.

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

3. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?
(a) Poets may write what content they choose as long as it follows the same form.
(b) Individual art has intrinsic value.
(c) Individual art outside the party lines has no lasting value.
(d) The state only slightly moderates art.

4. The purpose of Chapter 2 is to compare and contrast what two groups?
(a) Communists and fascists.
(b) Communists and capitalists.
(c) Eastern and Western communists.
(d) Eastern Europe with Eastern Asia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Alpha became a more religious writer?

2. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?

3. Witkiewicz thought art and philosophy were living out their last days, and how did he see their end?

4. Why did Alpha eventually become a communist?

5. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?

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