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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Milosz's experience, how does the East view everything from the West?
(a) Unnecessary
(b) Evil.
(c) Pure.
(d) Good.

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

5. 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 modified capitalism to fit their needs.
(c) They had no choice but the New Faith.
(d) They regretted their choice.

6. When did Alpha became a more religious writer?
(a) When he supported the underground Catholic church.
(b) When he scoffed all Catholic writers.
(c) When he turned his back on Christianity.
(d) When he became more fully involved in the church.

7. At the end of Chapter 3, how does Milosz succinctly define Ketman?
(a) Against the state.
(b) For the benefit of mankind.
(c) Against something.
(d) In the name of the state.

8. In seeking a strong heroic element, what character/s did Alpha's second novel choose?
(a) A Polish man with strong nationalistic feeling.
(b) A town devoted to the New Faith.
(c) A man of the New Faith.
(d) Several people of the New Faith.

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

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

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

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

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

14. The Ketman of revolutionary purity holds that a tyrant's reign may be justified in what circumstances?
(a) If he brings the nation out of its troubles.
(b) In extreme historical circumstances.
(c) If he cannot be deposed.
(d) For a brief period of time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According the Chapter 2, what does the Method emphasize about change?

2. As far as man's preferences in Western art and literature, what aspect does Milosz refer to?

3. Milosz explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?

4. Witkiewicz thought art and philosophy were living out their last days, and how did he see their end?

5. According to the center, contradictions ___________ in the minds of its citizens.

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