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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. According the Chapter 2, what does the Method emphasize about change?
(a) Stasis.
(b) Exercise of critical faculties.
(c) Moderate, deliberate change.
(d) Fluidity of phenomena.

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

3. In the eyes of the besieged Pole, what is the only poetry that will last?
(a) Poetry that is most amusing.
(b) Poetry that is unquestionably real.
(c) Poetry that has most affected the writer.
(d) Poetry that is most vivid to the reader.

4. As seen in Chapter 2, how does the poet of a communist country write?
(a) Exactly what the state tells him.
(b) As himself.
(c) As an ideal citizen.
(d) For the marching soldiers.

5. Why, as Chapter 2 explains, do Eastern communists look to the West?
(a) The New Faith allows it.
(b) They are curious.
(c) The New Faith cannot satisfy their emotional needs.
(d) The New Faith cannot satisfy their spiritual needs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Ketman asserts that men do not know how to rule themselves or properly distribute goods?

2. Milosz explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?

3. Milosz asserts that the man of the New Faith has the greatest fear of what action?

4. Chapter 2 opens with the picture of the Eastern communists looking to the West with what emotion/s?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. From several references to Tito throughout Chapters 2 and 3, what can the reader infer about him? What does the center gain by making an example of him?

2. As the new way comes into power, it cannot eradicate the old way all at once. Why not?

3. How does Ketman create pride in the man who practices it?

4. The Red Army had no reason to help Warsaw in its battle against the Nazis. Why was this true, and how did it set the stage for the new communist government?

5. Why does the Eastern communist often call the West stupid?

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

7. "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?

8. Why does man find such joy in the "collective warmth" of which Milosz speaks?

9. What is the difference between Eastern and Western Communists?

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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