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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Alpha and Milosz stumbled on a board with the painted words "Lieutenant Zbyszek's road of suffering," what did they meditate on?
(a) History's plans for a man's life.
(b) The story of Lieutenant Zbyszek's family.
(c) Their own possible deaths.
(d) What remains at the end of a man's life.

2. In the mid-twentieth century, many European nations realized that they could be directly influenced by what force?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Communism.
(c) New rulers.
(d) Philosophy.

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

4. According to Milosz, nations which have recently come under communist rule feel excitement at first, and then feel what emotion?
(a) Trepidation for their unknown future.
(b) That they've been caught in a trap like mice.
(c) That they've been lied to about the government.
(d) Sadness for the loss of their autonomy.

5. Multi-Bing pills establish ________ foundations rather than _________ .
(a) Philosophical, scientific.
(b) Materialistic, aesthetic.
(c) Scientific, religious.
(d) Aesthetic, religious.

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

7. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?
(a) Timely.
(b) Heavenly.
(c) Mathematical.
(d) Earthy.

8. According the Chapter 2, what does the Method emphasize about change?
(a) Fluidity of phenomena.
(b) Exercise of critical faculties.
(c) Stasis.
(d) Moderate, deliberate change.

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

10. In the 1940s, once they were freed of the past, how did the Eastern countries think?
(a) They returned to a feudalist system.
(b) They had no choice but the New Faith.
(c) They modified capitalism to fit their needs.
(d) They regretted their choice.

11. Defining good and evil outside of party interests is what type of Ketman?
(a) Aesthetic Ketman.
(b) Sceptical Ketman.
(c) Metaphysical Ketman.
(d) Ethical Ketman.

12. During World War II, how did the nearness of death affect the Poles' lives?
(a) It made them ambivalent to the future.
(b) It instilled terror.
(c) It created a daily thankfulness for life.
(d) It destroyed all sense of shame.

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

14. Russian engineers and doctors ________ Western innovations.
(a) Sell.
(b) Anticipate.
(c) Ignore.
(d) Copy.

15. Which Ketman asserts that men do not know how to rule themselves or properly distribute goods?
(a) Sceptical Ketman.
(b) Metaphysical Ketman.
(c) Ethical Ketman.
(d) The Ketman of revolutionary purity.

Short Answer Questions

1. In seeking a strong heroic element, what character/s did Alpha's second novel choose?

2. How prevalent is National Ketman?

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

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

5. Why does the state take advantage of professional Ketman?

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