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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 Ketman of revolutionary purity holds that a tyrant's reign may be justified in what circumstances?
(a) If he brings the nation out of its troubles.
(b) In extreme historical circumstances.
(c) For a brief period of time.
(d) If he cannot be deposed.

2. According to the center, contradictions ___________ in the minds of its citizens.
(a) Are allowed to remain.
(b) Do not exist.
(c) Are stamped out immediately.
(d) Are taught according to policy.

3. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?
(a) Change must come.
(b) They are perfectly happy with their lives.
(c) Feudalism is their only salvation.
(d) Communism is their only salvation.

4. How does the Eastern communist regard everything from the West?
(a) With strong criticism.
(b) With antipathy.
(c) With deep confusion.
(d) With loud enthusiasm.

5. At the end of Chapter 3, how does Milosz succinctly define Ketman?
(a) Against the state.
(b) For the benefit of mankind.
(c) In the name of the state.
(d) Against something.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In seeking a strong heroic element, what character/s did Alpha's second novel choose?

3. As seen in Chapter 2, how does the poet of a communist country write?

4. Milosz explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?

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

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