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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Beta the Disappointed Lover.

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 exposing heresy in others.
(c) Appearing obedient while harboring heresy.
(d) Flaunting heresy.

2. Art and literature of the party prove to the intellectual that what is true about the world?
(a) Only Western influence can change things.
(b) Things can be different if he works hard enough.
(c) Things cannot be different than they are.
(d) Only the party can change things.

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

4. Milosz says that an individual has no more significance to the muse of history than what object?
(a) A weed in a field.
(b) An atom in space.
(c) A cog in a machine.
(d) An instrument in an orchestra.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Cosmopolitanism, as defined by communism, is what thought?

2. According to Chapter 4, as the Polish uprising fought the Nazis for control of Warsaw, what did the Red Army do?

3. In a communist country, what is perhaps the best way to ensure one's safety?

4. As explained in Chapter 2, the party considers _________ one of the highest virtues.

5. In Witkeiwicz's novel, if man is attuned to the absurd, what does he see?

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