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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alpha's response to the Nazis' violent anti-Semitism was what emotion?
(a) Support.
(b) Outrage.
(c) Quiet approval.
(d) Indifference.

2. Milosz compares the Method to what animal?
(a) An ox, strong enough to bear the weight of reality.
(b) A fox, wily enough to deceive those who are skeptical.
(c) A powerful bird whose wing is broken.
(d) A snake, for which the tail begins at any point.

3. Taking joy that one's life occurs within the stream of life is what type of Ketman?
(a) Ethical Ketman.
(b) Professional Ketman.
(c) Aesthetic Ketman.
(d) The Ketman of revolutionary purity.

4. What school of thought gave Alpha the tragic language he needed?
(a) Agnosticism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Catholicism.

5. The "accidental unmaskings of Ketman," Chapter 3, are called _________ .
(a) Deviations.
(b) Hallucinations.
(c) Perpetuations.
(d) Derivations.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the inhabitants of communist countries appear?

3. Fifty years of re-education within the party can change entire nations so that they become what?

4. The most difficult thing for a man of the New Faith to conquer, according to Milosz, is his feeling of what?

5. Why did Alpha eventually become a communist?

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