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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The atmosphere in a collective society is one of what?
(a) Solidarity and happiness.
(b) Harmony and action.
(c) Strength and unhappiness.
(d) Usefulness and action.

2. Chapter 2 opens with the picture of the Eastern communists looking to the West with what emotion/s?
(a) A mixture of hope and despair.
(b) Anger and confusion.
(c) Disillusionment.
(d) Unabashed hope.

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

4. Within communist countries, it is not important what a man says but:
(a) What he wanted to say.
(b) Who hears him.
(c) How he says it.
(d) How it is received.

5. Alpha's response to the Nazis' violent anti-Semitism was what emotion?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Support.
(c) Outrage.
(d) Quiet approval.

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

7. Why does the state take advantage of professional Ketman?
(a) It exploits the workers.
(b) It needs doctors and engineers.
(c) The problem is minimal.
(d) It has other, more pressing concerns.

8. 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.

9. As far as man's preferences in Western art and literature, what aspect does Milosz refer to?
(a) The ability of the state to predict his choices.
(b) The inexplicable nature of his choices.
(c) The ability of the state to imitate the pieces he likes.
(d) The fickleness of his choices.

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

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

12. How prevalent is National Ketman?
(a) Limited to the upper circles of the party.
(b) Widespread throughout communist society.
(c) Limited to the people who have no power within the party.
(d) Not of concern to the center.

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

14. Witkiewicz thought art and philosophy were living out their last days, and how did he see their end?
(a) He tried to slow their decay.
(b) He tried to speed their demise.
(c) He couldn't wait until they were gone.
(d) He found life without them unbearable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Defining good and evil outside of party interests is what type of Ketman?

2. Milosz ends Chapter I with the question:

3. How does the Eastern communist regard everything from the West?

4. The most difficult thing for a man of the New Faith to conquer, according to Milosz, is his feeling of what?

5. In Milosz's experience, how does a man change under communist rule?

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