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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Alpha, the Moralist.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As explained in Chapter 2, the party considers _________ one of the highest virtues.
(a) Compliance.
(b) Restraint.
(c) Silence.
(d) Informing.

2. When the Red Army came into Poland in 1945, how were writers treated?
(a) Encouraged, in order to show communism's support of the cultural elite.
(b) Promoted according to their communist sympathies.
(c) Left alone as long as they didn't print anti-communist material.
(d) Killed, to show how communism treats individual thinking.

3. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?
(a) Mathematical.
(b) Heavenly.
(c) Earthy.
(d) Timely.

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

5. Every man considers his mode of life as what?
(a) Natural.
(b) Necessary.
(c) Destined to change.
(d) Unnatural.

Short Answer Questions

1. Milosz asserts that the man of the New Faith has the greatest fear of what action?

2. Milosz says that both the old way of life and war-time values are natural if what happens?

3. The "accidental unmaskings of Ketman," Chapter 3, are called _________ .

4. The purpose of Chapter 2 is to compare and contrast what two groups?

5. As far as man's preferences in Western art and literature, what aspect does Milosz refer to?

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