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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. According to Witkiewicz, what role does religion play in modern society?
(a) Remains only as part of the fading tradition.
(b) Slowly dying but still forceful.
(c) Actively involved.
(d) None at all.

2. The center planned that all Eastern European countries would speak which language?
(a) Czechoslovakian.
(b) Lithuanian.
(c) Russian.
(d) Polish.

3. Every man considers his mode of life as what?
(a) Necessary.
(b) Unnatural.
(c) Natural.
(d) Destined to change.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What school of thought gave Alpha the tragic language he needed?

2. The atmosphere in a collective society is one of what?

3. When a man looks to the West, why does he not have clear insight?

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

5. Chapter 2 notes that though it is good to be free from something, how does freedom become better?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Although only a couple presses were kept intact, in order to print Nazi propaganda, the underground writing flourished. Why?

4. Why, according to party policy, can there be no contradictions in the minds of Soviet citizens?

5. The Red Army had no reason to help Warsaw in its battle against the Nazis. Why was this true, and how did it set the stage for the new communist government?

6. How does national Ketman satisfy, as much as possible, the nationalist leanings in a man? Why is this an important Ketman?

7. What advantages does the Center gain with the idea of "cosmopolitanism"?

8. Why, in the end, could Alpha make only one decision about joining the party?

9. Why does aesthetic Ketman flourish, when nothing of the sort is necessary in other countries?

10. Although human interaction is often characterized by some degree of acting, how do Eastern communists take this to an extreme? How does this affect them?

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