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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. Why does the state take advantage of professional Ketman?
(a) The problem is minimal.
(b) It has other, more pressing concerns.
(c) It exploits the workers.
(d) It needs doctors and engineers.

2. Taking joy that one's life occurs within the stream of life is what type of Ketman?
(a) Professional Ketman.
(b) The Ketman of revolutionary purity.
(c) Aesthetic Ketman.
(d) Ethical Ketman.

3. Which Ketman asserts that men do not know how to rule themselves or properly distribute goods?
(a) Ethical Ketman.
(b) The Ketman of revolutionary purity.
(c) Metaphysical Ketman.
(d) Sceptical Ketman.

4. In Chapter 4, once the Nazis took over a country, how did they treat the printing presses?
(a) They destroyed the printing presses and offices.
(b) They took over the presses to print large volumes of propaganda.
(c) Almost nothing was printed in that country's language.
(d) Printing continued as normal.

5. At the end of Chapter 3, how does Milosz succinctly define Ketman?
(a) Against the state.
(b) In the name of the state.
(c) Against something.
(d) For the benefit of mankind.

Short Answer Questions

1. The people who practice metaphysical Ketman are often former ____________ .

2. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?

3. Why, as Chapter 2 explains, do Eastern communists look to the West?

4. Harboring contempt for Russia is what type of Ketman?

5. In Milosz's experience, how does a man change under communist rule?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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. 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?

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

7. Why does aesthetic Ketman flourish, when nothing of the sort is necessary in other countries?

8. How does Alpha's hunger for purity and strong heroic characters prepare the way for the New Faith? Could he have gone any other way?

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

10. Why, according to party policy, can there be no contradictions in the minds of Soviet citizens?

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