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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) They are curious.
(b) The New Faith allows it.
(c) The New Faith cannot satisfy their emotional needs.
(d) The New Faith cannot satisfy their spiritual needs.

2. Milosz ends Chapter I with the question:
(a) What else could man ask for?
(b) What the devil does a man need?
(c) How long until man accepts the party?
(d) How long must communism continue?

3. Milosz says that both the old way of life and war-time values are natural if what happens?
(a) They come without warning.
(b) The government prepares for them.
(c) The church sanctions them.
(d) They are within a person's experience.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Alpha eventually become a communist?

2. Defining good and evil outside of party interests is what type of Ketman?

3. Milosz illustrates Ketman with the example of what person?

4. The people who practice metaphysical Ketman are often former ____________ .

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

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