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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Citizens of communist countries become adept in what skill, according to Milosz?
(a) Imitating.
(b) Reasoning.
(c) Acting.
(d) Persuading.

2. What phrase occurs often throughout Chapter 2?
(a) The horrific West.
(b) The cosmopolitan West.
(c) The venerable West.
(d) The decadent West.

3. According to Witkiewicz, what role does religion play in modern society?
(a) Slowly dying but still forceful.
(b) None at all.
(c) Actively involved.
(d) Remains only as part of the fading tradition.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By standards of the East, as compared to the West, how is anyone with talent treated?

2. How did Alpha fall into falseness?

3. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?

4. Why did the new communist government have a difficult time in Poland after World War II?

5. In the mid-twentieth century, many European nations realized that they could be directly influenced by what force?

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