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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. Alpha's pursuit of purity in his work was driven largely by what characteristic?
(a) Sense of personal purity.
(b) Jaded view of the world.
(c) Personal arrogance.
(d) Devotion to the church.

2. In 1932, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz wrote a book entitled what?
(a) Incongruity.
(b) Insatiability.
(c) Instability.
(d) Insecurity.

3. Those who assert that their work is most important, rather than the ends and benefactors of the work, are following which Ketman?
(a) Sceptical Ketman
(b) Ethical Ketman.
(c) Aesthetic Ketman
(d) Professional Ketman.

4. Cosmopolitanism, as defined by communism, is what thought?
(a) Fear of the Western bourgeois cultures.
(b) Admiration for all cultures.
(c) Admiration for all countries in the communist bloc.
(d) Admiration for the Western bourgeois cultures.

5. The Multi-Bing pills are most tempting to what type of person?
(a) An intellectual.
(b) A merchant.
(c) A peasant.
(d) A worker.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How prevalent is National Ketman?

3. In the eyes of the besieged Pole, what is the only poetry that will last?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does man find such joy in the "collective warmth" of which Milosz speaks?

2. What is the difference between Eastern and Western Communists?

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

5. 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?

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

7. "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?

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

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

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

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