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

2. The people who practice metaphysical Ketman are often former ____________ .
(a) Communists.
(b) Catholics.
(c) Philosophers.
(d) Humanists.

3. Milosz explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?
(a) Some hesitation because of their personal property.
(b) That there is no other hope of salvation.
(c) Complete joy.
(d) Some hesitation because of their children.

4. The atmosphere in a collective society is one of what?
(a) Usefulness and action.
(b) Strength and unhappiness.
(c) Solidarity and happiness.
(d) Harmony and action.

5. The most difficult thing for a man of the New Faith to conquer, according to Milosz, is his feeling of what?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Elation.
(c) Trepidation.
(d) Suspicion.

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to kept his apartment and good political standing, the man practicing aesthetic Ketman is willing to do what?

2. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?

3. How prevalent is National Ketman?

4. After the war, how was Alpha was received by Polish communists?

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

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