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

2. How do the inhabitants of communist countries appear?
(a) Predominantly tall and well-dressed.
(b) Uniformly short and stocky.
(c) Mostly Aryan, following the decimation of the Jewish population in World War II.
(d) Diverse according to their racial heritages.

3. Multi-Bing pills establish ________ foundations rather than _________ .
(a) Philosophical, scientific.
(b) Aesthetic, religious.
(c) Materialistic, aesthetic.
(d) Scientific, religious.

4. How does Metaphysical Ketman treat man's mind?
(a) He thinks religiously.
(b) He thinks rationally and materialistically.
(c) He thinks in terms of the present.
(d) He loses the need for metaphysical answers.

5. In seeking a strong heroic element, what character/s did Alpha's second novel choose?
(a) A Polish man with strong nationalistic feeling.
(b) A man of the New Faith.
(c) Several people of the New Faith.
(d) A town devoted to the New Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Milosz's experience, how does a man change under communist rule?

2. Cosmopolitanism, as defined by communism, is what thought?

3. As seen in Chapter 2, how does the poet of a communist country write?

4. Citizens of communist countries become adept in what skill, according to Milosz?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why, in the end, could Alpha make only one decision about joining the party?

2. Why does the man entering the gate of communism feel that he is doing something wrong?

3. If an artist disagrees with the dialectical method, he debates the question with a panel of Party authorities and always, undoubtedly loses. Why is this so?

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

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

8. Although only a couple presses were kept intact, in order to print Nazi propaganda, the underground writing flourished. Why?

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

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

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