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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Milosz admits that he has great admiration for what people or force?
(a) The people who bring about change.
(b) The people who fight evil.
(c) The impersonal forces of history.
(d) The philosophers who prepare the way for change.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase occurs often throughout Chapter 2?

2. The people who practice metaphysical Ketman are often former ____________ .

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

4. Which Ketman asserts that men do not know how to rule themselves or properly distribute goods?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is communism's goal for the relationship between the present and the past?

2. Why does the man entering the gate of communism feel that he is doing something wrong?

3. .How did Alpha become a more religious writer when he turned away from Christianity?

4. "If something exists in one place, it will exist everywhere" (pg. 29). Why does the man in destroyed Warsaw believe this, and how does it affect his spirit?

5. Why does the Eastern communist often call the West stupid?

6. How does Alpha's hunger for purity and strong heroic characters prepare the way for the New Faith? Could he have gone any other way?

7. Why is it important that man not only be free from something but also for something?

8. The pill takes away man's metaphysical concerns--why is this significant?

9. The East uses talented artists to their full ability, yet sometimes with mediocre results. Why does this happen?

10. How does Ketman create pride in the man who practices it?

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