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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do the Multi-Bing pills change a man?
(a) They erase vestiges of harmful personality.
(b) They create nervousness and tension.
(c) They make him more productive in society.
(d) They erase all metaphysical concerns.

3. In Chapter 4, once the Nazis took over a country, how did they treat the printing presses?
(a) They destroyed the printing presses and offices.
(b) Almost nothing was printed in that country's language.
(c) They took over the presses to print large volumes of propaganda.
(d) Printing continued as normal.

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

5. Art and literature of the party prove to the intellectual that what is true about the world?
(a) Things cannot be different than they are.
(b) Only the party can change things.
(c) Things can be different if he works hard enough.
(d) Only Western influence can change things.

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

7. Harboring contempt for Russia is what type of Ketman?
(a) National Ketman.
(b) Ethical Ketman.
(c) Sceptical Ketman.
(d) Professional Ketman.

8. According to the center, contradictions ___________ in the minds of its citizens.
(a) Are stamped out immediately.
(b) Do not exist.
(c) Are allowed to remain.
(d) Are taught according to policy.

9. In the eyes of the besieged Pole, what is the only poetry that will last?
(a) Poetry that is unquestionably real.
(b) Poetry that is most amusing.
(c) Poetry that is most vivid to the reader.
(d) Poetry that has most affected the writer.

10. In Witkiewicz's novel, the characters ultimately become:
(a) Schizophrenics.
(b) Bolshevik.
(c) Hypochondriacs.
(d) Catatonic.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Multi-Bing pills are most tempting to what type of person?

2. Milosz says that both the old way of life and war-time values are natural if what happens?

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

4. When did Alpha became a more religious writer?

5. According to Witkiewicz, what role does religion play in modern society?

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