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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 several examples from Eastern history, how is Ketman a way of living?
(a) Remaining completely obedient.
(b) Appearing obedient while harboring heresy.
(c) Appearing obedient while exposing heresy in others.
(d) Flaunting heresy.

2. How do the inhabitants of communist countries appear?
(a) Uniformly short and stocky.
(b) Mostly Aryan, following the decimation of the Jewish population in World War II.
(c) Diverse according to their racial heritages.
(d) Predominantly tall and well-dressed.

3. When a man looks to the West, why does he not have clear insight?
(a) Life in the East has drastically shaped his view.
(b) The party center obscures the truth.
(c) His emotions interfere.
(d) He cannot be realistic.

4. Russian engineers and doctors ________ Western innovations.
(a) Sell.
(b) Copy.
(c) Anticipate.
(d) Ignore.

5. According to Milosz, nations which have recently come under communist rule feel excitement at first, and then feel what emotion?
(a) Trepidation for their unknown future.
(b) That they've been caught in a trap like mice.
(c) Sadness for the loss of their autonomy.
(d) That they've been lied to about the government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Defining good and evil outside of party interests is what type of Ketman?

2. According to the center, contradictions ___________ in the minds of its citizens.

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

4. How does the Eastern communist regard everything from the West?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Eastern communist often call the West stupid?

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

3. "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?

4. 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?

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

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

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

9. The East uses talented artists to their full ability, yet sometimes with mediocre results. Why does this happen?

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

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