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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?
(a) History favors communism but allows capitalism to remain.
(b) History will again favor the bourgeois.
(c) Fascism paves the road for communism.
(d) History has condemned capitalism.

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

5. Milosz compares the Method to what animal?
(a) A snake, for which the tail begins at any point.
(b) A powerful bird whose wing is broken.
(c) A fox, wily enough to deceive those who are skeptical.
(d) An ox, strong enough to bear the weight of reality.

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

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

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

9. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?
(a) Communism is their only salvation.
(b) Change must come.
(c) They are perfectly happy with their lives.
(d) Feudalism is their only salvation.

10. How do the inhabitants of communist countries appear?
(a) Mostly Aryan, following the decimation of the Jewish population in World War II.
(b) Diverse according to their racial heritages.
(c) Predominantly tall and well-dressed.
(d) Uniformly short and stocky.

11. 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) Printing continued as normal.
(c) They took over the presses to print large volumes of propaganda.
(d) Almost nothing was printed in that country's language.

12. As explained in Chapter 1, if a man asks the questions to which the absurd leads him, he reaches what emotional state?
(a) Hatred of the proletariat.
(b) Hatred of himself.
(c) Hatred of the bourgeois.
(d) Despair for society.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, as Chapter 2 explains, do Eastern communists look to the West?

2. Taking joy that one's life occurs within the stream of life is what type of Ketman?

3. Milosz says that an individual has no more significance to the muse of history than what object?

4. What event did Alpha and Milosz narrowly miss one day as they were returning from the train station?

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

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