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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 the Red Army came into Poland in 1945, how were writers treated?
(a) Promoted according to their communist sympathies.
(b) Killed, to show how communism treats individual thinking.
(c) Encouraged, in order to show communism's support of the cultural elite.
(d) Left alone as long as they didn't print anti-communist material.

2. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?
(a) History has condemned capitalism.
(b) Fascism paves the road for communism.
(c) History favors communism but allows capitalism to remain.
(d) History will again favor the bourgeois.

3. Every man considers his mode of life as what?
(a) Natural.
(b) Destined to change.
(c) Unnatural.
(d) Necessary.

4. Citizens of communist countries become adept in what skill, according to Milosz?
(a) Persuading.
(b) Imitating.
(c) Acting.
(d) Reasoning.

5. Multi-Bing pills establish ________ foundations rather than _________ .
(a) Aesthetic, religious.
(b) Materialistic, aesthetic.
(c) Philosophical, scientific.
(d) Scientific, religious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 2 opens with the picture of the Eastern communists looking to the West with what emotion/s?

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

3. According to Chapter 4, as the Polish uprising fought the Nazis for control of Warsaw, what did the Red Army do?

4. In Witkeiwicz's novel, if man is attuned to the absurd, what does he see?

5. According to the center, contradictions ___________ in the minds of its citizens.

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