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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 did Alpha became a more religious writer?
(a) When he supported the underground Catholic church.
(b) When he scoffed all Catholic writers.
(c) When he turned his back on Christianity.
(d) When he became more fully involved in the church.

2. In Witkiewicz's novel, the characters ultimately become:
(a) Schizophrenics.
(b) Bolshevik.
(c) Hypochondriacs.
(d) Catatonic.

3. What event did Alpha and Milosz narrowly miss one day as they were returning from the train station?
(a) Being searched by Nazi squads.
(b) Being run over by a truck full of Jews bound for Auschwitz.
(c) Being captured in the first man-hunt for Auschwitz.
(d) The outbreak of a street fight.

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

5. In order to kept his apartment and good political standing, the man practicing aesthetic Ketman is willing to do what?
(a) Make only the necessary sacrifices.
(b) Give up his first-born child.
(c) Promote the party's interests at all costs.
(d) Make any sacrifice or compromise.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Alpha and Milosz stumbled on a board with the painted words "Lieutenant Zbyszek's road of suffering," what did they meditate on?

2. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?

3. Fifty years of re-education within the party can change entire nations so that they become what?

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

5. Cosmopolitanism, as defined by communism, is what thought?

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