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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. In the 1940s, once they were freed of the past, how did the Eastern countries think?
(a) They regretted their choice.
(b) They modified capitalism to fit their needs.
(c) They had no choice but the New Faith.
(d) They returned to a feudalist system.

2. Aesthetic Ketman spreads because the citizens crave what aspect of daily life?
(a) Similarity.
(b) Sameness.
(c) Strangeness.
(d) Superficiality.

3. Fifty years of re-education within the party can change entire nations so that they become what?
(a) Docile and obedient.
(b) Utterly subservient.
(c) Fearful.
(d) Sly and vicious.

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

5. According the Chapter 2, what does the Method emphasize about change?
(a) Fluidity of phenomena.
(b) Moderate, deliberate change.
(c) Exercise of critical faculties.
(d) Stasis.

Short Answer Questions

1. As seen in Chapter 2, how does the poet of a communist country write?

2. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?

3. Milosz compares the Method to what animal?

4. Milosz asserts that the man of the New Faith has the greatest fear of what action?

5. After the war, how was Alpha was received by Polish communists?

Short Essay Questions

1. "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?

2. Why is the Ketman of revolutionary purity the most rare form of Ketman?

3. From several references to Tito throughout Chapters 2 and 3, what can the reader infer about him? What does the center gain by making an example of him?

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

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

7. What significance is there in the fact that Murti-Bing comes in pill form?

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

9. Is Ketman necessary to the citizen of the New Faith? Why?

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

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