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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What kind of mentality do peasants have, according to the state?
(a) Low-class.
(b) Unrealistic.
(c) Feudalist.
(d) Middle-class.

5. Why was Gamma's writing weak?
(a) Human emotion.
(b) Previous success.
(c) Proper doctrine.
(d) Empathy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the end result of Gamma's poetry?

2. As explained in Chapter 1, if a man asks the questions to which the absurd leads him, he reaches what emotional state?

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

4. Alpha's pursuit of purity in his work was driven largely by what characteristic?

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

(see the answer key)

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