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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Milosz's book The Captive Mind deals with what subject?
(a) What he experienced living in Poland.
(b) What he heard about after living in the United States.
(c) Society some time in the future.
(d) Fictional characters.

3. In Chapter 4, who is Alpha, the Moralist?
(a) A well-known prose writer, a good friend of Milosz.
(b) A well-known poet, a good friend of Milosz.
(c) A little-known prose writer, a good friend of Milosz.
(d) A well-known prose writer not personally known to Milosz.

4. Why did the new communist government have a difficult time in Poland after World War II?
(a) The citizens did not want them there.
(b) They were unprepared for the hardship.
(c) Moscow had sent too few leaders.
(d) The modes of transportation were insufficient.

5. Every man considers his mode of life as what?
(a) Natural.
(b) Necessary.
(c) Destined to change.
(d) Unnatural.

6. In 1932, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz wrote a book entitled what?
(a) Insecurity.
(b) Insatiability.
(c) Instability.
(d) Incongruity.

7. As seen in Chapter 2, how does the poet of a communist country write?
(a) For the marching soldiers.
(b) As himself.
(c) As an ideal citizen.
(d) Exactly what the state tells him.

8. After the war, how was Alpha was received by Polish communists?
(a) On the condition he write what they wanted.
(b) Skeptically.
(c) With hostility.
(d) With open arms.

9. In Witkeiwicz's novel, if man is attuned to the absurd, what does he see?
(a) There is no hope of salvation, either earthly or heavenly.
(b) His own life is worthless.
(c) People's individual lives are meaningless.
(d) The state is meaningless.

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

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

12. Aesthetic Ketman spreads because the citizens crave what aspect of daily life?
(a) Superficiality.
(b) Similarity.
(c) Strangeness.
(d) Sameness.

13. Taking joy that one's life occurs within the stream of life is what type of Ketman?
(a) Ethical Ketman.
(b) Professional Ketman.
(c) Aesthetic Ketman.
(d) The Ketman of revolutionary purity.

14. Walking in the ruined city in 1945, what emotion did Alpha feel primarily?
(a) Anger.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Despair.
(d) Sadness.

15. What school of thought gave Alpha the tragic language he needed?
(a) Fascism.
(b) Agnosticism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Capitalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. The people who practice metaphysical Ketman are often former ____________ .

2. Citizens of communist countries become adept in what skill, according to Milosz?

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

4. In Chapter 4, once the Nazis took over a country, how did they treat the printing presses?

5. In Witkiewicz's novel, the characters ultimately become:

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