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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Man, This Enemy.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Milosz says that both the old way of life and war-time values are natural if what happens?
(a) They are within a person's experience.
(b) The church sanctions them.
(c) The government prepares for them.
(d) They come without warning.

3. Alpha became a moral authority, as he had dreamed, because of his work in what place?
(a) In the underground, smuggling Jews to safety.
(b) In the underground, smuggling food.
(c) In the Communist Party, writing and publishing.
(d) In the underground, writing and publishing.

4. As explained in Chapter 1, if a man asks the questions to which the absurd leads him, he reaches what emotional state?
(a) Hatred of the proletariat.
(b) Hatred of himself.
(c) Hatred of the bourgeois.
(d) Despair for society.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the concentration camp, what kind of life does Beta lead?

2. As the NKVD began mass deportation, how did Gamma write communist propaganda?

3. In Milosz's experience, how does the East view everything from the West?

4. Chapter 2 opens with the picture of the Eastern communists looking to the West with what emotion/s?

5. Aesthetic Ketman spreads because the citizens crave what aspect of daily life?

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