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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. The Ketman of revolutionary purity holds that a tyrant's reign may be justified in what circumstances?
(a) In extreme historical circumstances.
(b) If he brings the nation out of its troubles.
(c) For a brief period of time.
(d) If he cannot be deposed.

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

3. In Witkeiwicz's novel, if man is attuned to the absurd, what does he see?
(a) There is no hope of salvation, either earthly or heavenly.
(b) The state is meaningless.
(c) People's individual lives are meaningless.
(d) His own life is worthless.

4. The "accidental unmaskings of Ketman," Chapter 3, are called _________ .
(a) Deviations.
(b) Perpetuations.
(c) Hallucinations.
(d) Derivations.

5. How prevalent is National Ketman?
(a) Widespread throughout communist society.
(b) Not of concern to the center.
(c) Limited to the people who have no power within the party.
(d) Limited to the upper circles of the party.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Multi-Bing pills change a man?

2. By standards of the East, as compared to the West, how is anyone with talent treated?

3. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?

4. American politics regarded Russia's invasion of Eastern countries with what emotion?

5. In what city did Alpha the Moralist live?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. "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?

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. What is historic fatalism and how does it affect even a man's most personal interactions?

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