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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The "accidental unmaskings of Ketman," Chapter 3, are called _________ .
(a) Deviations.
(b) Derivations.
(c) Perpetuations.
(d) Hallucinations.

2. When a man looks to the West, why does he not have clear insight?
(a) His emotions interfere.
(b) The party center obscures the truth.
(c) Life in the East has drastically shaped his view.
(d) He cannot be realistic.

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

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

5. 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 government prepares for them.
(c) They come without warning.
(d) The church sanctions them.

6. In order to kept his apartment and good political standing, the man practicing aesthetic Ketman is willing to do what?
(a) Make only the necessary sacrifices.
(b) Give up his first-born child.
(c) Make any sacrifice or compromise.
(d) Promote the party's interests at all costs.

7. According to Chapter 4, as the Polish uprising fought the Nazis for control of Warsaw, what did the Red Army do?
(a) Waited in Moscow.
(b) Watched from across the river.
(c) Sided with the Nazis.
(d) Sent troops to help.

8. 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.

9. Milosz illustrates Ketman with the example of what person?
(a) An average housewife.
(b) A communist.
(c) A Shiite theologian.
(d) A Muslim.

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

11. By standards of the East, as compared to the West, how is anyone with talent treated?
(a) He is rejected by the State.
(b) He is ignored.
(c) He is allowed to go his own way.
(d) He is put to full use.

12. The Multi-Bing pills are most tempting to what type of person?
(a) A peasant.
(b) A worker.
(c) A merchant.
(d) An intellectual.

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

14. How did Alpha fall into falseness?
(a) By living among the wrong people.
(b) By completely isolating himself.
(c) By living among ideas of people.
(d) By living arrogantly.

15. In Milosz's experience, how does a man change under communist rule?
(a) He sees the new rule as unnatural.
(b) He asks questions so he can understand the new government.
(c) He gains new habits quickly and asks no questions.
(d) He gains new habits slowly and painfully.

Short Answer Questions

1. Those who assert that their work is most important, rather than the ends and benefactors of the work, are following which Ketman?

2. Why did Alpha eventually become a communist?

3. How prevalent is National Ketman?

4. What school of thought gave Alpha the tragic language he needed?

5. Milosz's book The Captive Mind deals with what subject?

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