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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, as Chapter 2 explains, do Eastern communists look to the West?
(a) The New Faith cannot satisfy their emotional needs.
(b) The New Faith cannot satisfy their spiritual needs.
(c) The New Faith allows it.
(d) They are curious.

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

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

4. The Multi-Bing pills are most tempting to what type of person?
(a) A merchant.
(b) A peasant.
(c) An intellectual.
(d) A worker.

5. Milosz illustrates Ketman with the example of what person?
(a) A communist.
(b) A Muslim.
(c) A Shiite theologian.
(d) An average housewife.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Milosz's experience, how does a man change under communist rule?

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

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

4. In the 1940s, once they were freed of the past, how did the Eastern countries think?

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

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