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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How prevalent is National Ketman?
(a) Limited to the people who have no power within the party.
(b) Not of concern to the center.
(c) Limited to the upper circles of the party.
(d) Widespread throughout communist society.

2. How do the Multi-Bing pills change a man?
(a) They erase all metaphysical concerns.
(b) They make him more productive in society.
(c) They create nervousness and tension.
(d) They erase vestiges of harmful personality.

3. What school of thought gave Alpha the tragic language he needed?
(a) Agnosticism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Catholicism.

4. Milosz compares the American law system to what image?
(a) A man drowning at sea.
(b) A powerful ship.
(c) A man alone on a log raft.
(d) People in a raft paddling different directions.

5. Walking in the ruined city in 1945, what emotion did Alpha feel primarily?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Despair.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Anger.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Within communist countries, it is not important what a man says but:

3. During World War II, how did the nearness of death affect the Poles' lives?

4. The Ketman of revolutionary purity holds that a tyrant's reign may be justified in what circumstances?

5. American politics regarded Russia's invasion of Eastern countries with what emotion?

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