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

2. How does Metaphysical Ketman treat man's mind?
(a) He thinks rationally and materialistically.
(b) He thinks religiously.
(c) He loses the need for metaphysical answers.
(d) He thinks in terms of the present.

3. Because the Communist Party was at first illegal in Poland, what did party members do?
(a) Were forced to work only through underground means.
(b) Had no choice but to rebel against the laws.
(c) Tried to sway public opinion with writers who were sympathetic to communism.
(d) Bided their time until communism had gained a stronger footing.

4. As Beta scornfully realized, how could someone have power in Poland?
(a) Seize it by force.
(b) Destroy all Polish underground resistance.
(c) Follow the procedures established by the Polish government.
(d) Overcome the Nazis.

5. As Milosz witnessed, why was becoming a communist a difficult decision?
(a) A person gave up all his personal property.
(b) A person renounced his sense of nationalism.
(c) A person became subject to the whims of the bourgeois.
(d) A person renounced his sense of personality.

Short Answer Questions

1. According the Chapter 2, what does the Method emphasize about change?

2. Why, as Chapter 2 explains, do Eastern communists look to the West?

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

4. How did Gamma express his anti-Semitic views?

5. Milosz says that an individual has no more significance to the muse of history than what object?

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