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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to several examples from Eastern history, how is Ketman a way of living?
(a) Appearing obedient while harboring heresy.
(b) Remaining completely obedient.
(c) Appearing obedient while exposing heresy in others.
(d) Flaunting heresy.

2. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?
(a) Communism is their only salvation.
(b) They are perfectly happy with their lives.
(c) Change must come.
(d) Feudalism is their only salvation.

3. Alpha's pursuit of purity in his work was driven largely by what characteristic?
(a) Jaded view of the world.
(b) Personal arrogance.
(c) Devotion to the church.
(d) Sense of personal purity.

4. Milosz says that an individual has no more significance to the muse of history than what object?
(a) A weed in a field.
(b) A cog in a machine.
(c) An instrument in an orchestra.
(d) An atom in space.

5. How do the inhabitants of communist countries appear?
(a) Diverse according to their racial heritages.
(b) Predominantly tall and well-dressed.
(c) Uniformly short and stocky.
(d) Mostly Aryan, following the decimation of the Jewish population in World War II.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Witkiewicz's novel, the characters ultimately become:

2. When the Red Army came into Poland in 1945, how were writers treated?

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

4. In what city did Alpha the Moralist live?

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

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