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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alpha's response to the Nazis' violent anti-Semitism was what emotion?
(a) Quiet approval.
(b) Outrage.
(c) Support.
(d) Indifference.

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

3. Why did the new communist government have a difficult time in Poland after World War II?
(a) Moscow had sent too few leaders.
(b) The modes of transportation were insufficient.
(c) The citizens did not want them there.
(d) They were unprepared for the hardship.

4. In Milosz's experience, how does a man change under communist rule?
(a) He gains new habits quickly and asks no questions.
(b) He gains new habits slowly and painfully.
(c) He sees the new rule as unnatural.
(d) He asks questions so he can understand the new government.

5. In 1932, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz wrote a book entitled what?
(a) Instability.
(b) Incongruity.
(c) Insatiability.
(d) Insecurity.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the eyes of the besieged Pole, what is the only poetry that will last?

2. As far as man's preferences in Western art and literature, what aspect does Milosz refer to?

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

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

5. Milosz compares the Method to what animal?

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