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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harboring contempt for Russia is what type of Ketman?
(a) Ethical Ketman.
(b) National Ketman.
(c) Sceptical Ketman.
(d) Professional Ketman.

2. Aesthetic Ketman spreads because the citizens crave what aspect of daily life?
(a) Strangeness.
(b) Sameness.
(c) Superficiality.
(d) Similarity.

3. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?
(a) Change must come.
(b) Communism is their only salvation.
(c) They are perfectly happy with their lives.
(d) Feudalism is their only salvation.

4. In 1932, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz wrote a book entitled what?
(a) Incongruity.
(b) Instability.
(c) Insatiability.
(d) Insecurity.

5. When a man looks to the West, why does he not have clear insight?
(a) Life in the East has drastically shaped his view.
(b) He cannot be realistic.
(c) The party center obscures the truth.
(d) His emotions interfere.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. During World War II, how did the nearness of death affect the Poles' lives?

4. In Chapter 4, who is Alpha, the Moralist?

5. In order to kept his apartment and good political standing, the man practicing aesthetic Ketman is willing to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the Nazis invaded Warsaw, every man quickly changed his view of the world. Rather than reporting a corpse lying in the gutter, he passes quietly on. What does this say about man's state of mind then?

2. Is Ketman necessary to the citizen of the New Faith? Why?

3. How does national Ketman satisfy, as much as possible, the nationalist leanings in a man? Why is this an important Ketman?

4. Why is it important that man not only be free from something but also for something?

5. Why, according to party policy, can there be no contradictions in the minds of Soviet citizens?

6. What is communism's goal for the relationship between the present and the past?

7. The East uses talented artists to their full ability, yet sometimes with mediocre results. Why does this happen?

8. What significance is there in the fact that Murti-Bing comes in pill form?

9. "If something exists in one place, it will exist everywhere" (pg. 29). Why does the man in destroyed Warsaw believe this, and how does it affect his spirit?

10. How does Alpha's hunger for purity and strong heroic characters prepare the way for the New Faith? Could he have gone any other way?

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