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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ketman.

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. In the eyes of the besieged Pole, what is the only poetry that will last?
(a) Poetry that is most amusing.
(b) Poetry that has most affected the writer.
(c) Poetry that is unquestionably real.
(d) Poetry that is most vivid to the reader.

3. In the mid-twentieth century, many European nations realized that they could be directly influenced by what force?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Communism.
(d) New rulers.

4. Milosz says that both the old way of life and war-time values are natural if what happens?
(a) The government prepares for them.
(b) They come without warning.
(c) The church sanctions them.
(d) They are within a person's experience.

5. Chapter 2 notes that though it is good to be free from something, how does freedom become better?
(a) To work.
(b) To rest.
(c) For something.
(d) From many things.

Short Answer Questions

1. Taking joy that one's life occurs within the stream of life is what type of Ketman?

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

3. The Ketman of revolutionary purity holds that a tyrant's reign may be justified in what circumstances?

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

5. Milosz illustrates Ketman with the example of what person?

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