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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Milosz asserts that the man of the New Faith has the greatest fear of what action?
(a) Thinking for himself.
(b) Losing the capability to reason.
(c) Acting based on others' decisions.
(d) Thinking for others.

5. Citizens of communist countries become adept in what skill, according to Milosz?
(a) Persuading.
(b) Reasoning.
(c) Imitating.
(d) Acting.

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

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

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

9. The people who practice metaphysical Ketman are often former ____________ .
(a) Philosophers.
(b) Catholics.
(c) Humanists.
(d) Communists.

10. Alpha's pursuit of purity in his work was driven largely by what characteristic?
(a) Personal arrogance.
(b) Jaded view of the world.
(c) Sense of personal purity.
(d) Devotion to the church.

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

12. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?
(a) The state only slightly moderates art.
(b) Individual art outside the party lines has no lasting value.
(c) Poets may write what content they choose as long as it follows the same form.
(d) Individual art has intrinsic value.

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

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

15. In Chapter 4, who is Alpha, the Moralist?
(a) A well-known poet, a good friend of Milosz.
(b) A well-known prose writer, a good friend of Milosz.
(c) A well-known prose writer not personally known to Milosz.
(d) A little-known prose writer, a good friend of Milosz.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. American politics regarded Russia's invasion of Eastern countries with what emotion?

3. According to several examples from Eastern history, how is Ketman a way of living?

4. In the 1940s, once they were freed of the past, how did the Eastern countries think?

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

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