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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Multi-Bing pills establish ________ foundations rather than _________ .
(a) Aesthetic, religious.
(b) Scientific, religious.
(c) Philosophical, scientific.
(d) Materialistic, aesthetic.

2. In Witkeiwicz's novel, if man is attuned to the absurd, what does he see?
(a) There is no hope of salvation, either earthly or heavenly.
(b) People's individual lives are meaningless.
(c) The state is meaningless.
(d) His own life is worthless.

3. In the 1940s, once they were freed of the past, how did the Eastern countries think?
(a) They returned to a feudalist system.
(b) They had no choice but the New Faith.
(c) They modified capitalism to fit their needs.
(d) They regretted their choice.

4. In Milosz's experience, how does a man change under communist rule?
(a) He gains new habits slowly and painfully.
(b) He sees the new rule as unnatural.
(c) He asks questions so he can understand the new government.
(d) He gains new habits quickly and asks no questions.

5. When did Alpha became a more religious writer?
(a) When he scoffed all Catholic writers.
(b) When he turned his back on Christianity.
(c) When he supported the underground Catholic church.
(d) When he became more fully involved in the church.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Milosz, nations which have recently come under communist rule feel excitement at first, and then feel what emotion?

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

3. Art and literature of the party prove to the intellectual that what is true about the world?

4. Russian engineers and doctors ________ Western innovations.

5. As explained in Chapter 1, if a man asks the questions to which the absurd leads him, he reaches what emotional state?

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