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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. Milosz explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?
(a) That there is no other hope of salvation.
(b) Some hesitation because of their children.
(c) Some hesitation because of their personal property.
(d) Complete joy.

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

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

4. In Witkiewicz's novel, the characters ultimately become:
(a) Bolshevik.
(b) Hypochondriacs.
(c) Schizophrenics.
(d) Catatonic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Russian engineers and doctors ________ Western innovations.

2. Alpha's response to the Nazis' violent anti-Semitism was what emotion?

3. Multi-Bing pills establish ________ foundations rather than _________ .

4. Milosz admits that he has great admiration for what people or force?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. If an artist disagrees with the dialectical method, he debates the question with a panel of Party authorities and always, undoubtedly loses. Why is this so?

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

3. 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?

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 aesthetic Ketman flourish, when nothing of the sort is necessary in other countries?

6. Several times, Milosz describes bombed Warsaw as the cratered moon. How is this significant?

7. When the Nazis invaded Warsaw, every man quickly changed his view of the world. Rather than reporting a corpse lying in the gutter, he passes quietly on. What does this say about man's state of mind then?

8. Why is cosmopolitanism linked to nationalist concerns? What does the center gain by connecting these?

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

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

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