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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 center planned that all Eastern European countries would speak which language?
(a) Polish.
(b) Russian.
(c) Lithuanian.
(d) Czechoslovakian.

2. By standards of the East, as compared to the West, how is anyone with talent treated?
(a) He is ignored.
(b) He is rejected by the State.
(c) He is put to full use.
(d) He is allowed to go his own way.

3. When Alpha and Milosz stumbled on a board with the painted words "Lieutenant Zbyszek's road of suffering," what did they meditate on?
(a) The story of Lieutenant Zbyszek's family.
(b) What remains at the end of a man's life.
(c) Their own possible deaths.
(d) History's plans for a man's life.

4. During World War II, how did the nearness of death affect the Poles' lives?
(a) It made them ambivalent to the future.
(b) It created a daily thankfulness for life.
(c) It instilled terror.
(d) It destroyed all sense of shame.

5. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?
(a) Fascism paves the road for communism.
(b) History favors communism but allows capitalism to remain.
(c) History will again favor the bourgeois.
(d) History has condemned capitalism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the Multi-Bing pills change a man?

3. When a man looks to the West, why does he not have clear insight?

4. Walking in the ruined city in 1945, what emotion did Alpha feel primarily?

5. Chapter 2 notes that though it is good to be free from something, how does freedom become better?

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