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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Ketman of revolutionary purity holds that a tyrant's reign may be justified in what circumstances?
(a) If he brings the nation out of its troubles.
(b) If he cannot be deposed.
(c) For a brief period of time.
(d) In extreme historical circumstances.

2. What phrase occurs often throughout Chapter 2?
(a) The venerable West.
(b) The decadent West.
(c) The horrific West.
(d) The cosmopolitan West.

3. As explained in Chapter 1, if a man asks the questions to which the absurd leads him, he reaches what emotional state?
(a) Hatred of himself.
(b) Despair for society.
(c) Hatred of the proletariat.
(d) Hatred of the bourgeois.

4. Within communist countries, it is not important what a man says but:
(a) Who hears him.
(b) How he says it.
(c) How it is received.
(d) What he wanted to say.

5. In what city did Alpha the Moralist live?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Vilna.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) Marek.

Short Answer Questions

1. Milosz's book The Captive Mind deals with what subject?

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

3. How does the Eastern communist regard everything from the West?

4. In Milosz's experience, how does the East view everything from the West?

5. Why did the new communist government have a difficult time in Poland after World War II?

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