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

2. In the mid-twentieth century, many European nations realized that they could be directly influenced by what force?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) New rulers.
(d) Communism.

3. What event did Alpha and Milosz narrowly miss one day as they were returning from the train station?
(a) The outbreak of a street fight.
(b) Being searched by Nazi squads.
(c) Being run over by a truck full of Jews bound for Auschwitz.
(d) Being captured in the first man-hunt for Auschwitz.

4. How prevalent is National Ketman?
(a) Not of concern to the center.
(b) Limited to the people who have no power within the party.
(c) Widespread throughout communist society.
(d) Limited to the upper circles of the party.

5. How do the Multi-Bing pills change a man?
(a) They make him more productive in society.
(b) They erase all metaphysical concerns.
(c) They create nervousness and tension.
(d) They erase vestiges of harmful personality.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How do the inhabitants of communist countries appear?

4. In seeking a strong heroic element, what character/s did Alpha's second novel choose?

5. According to the center, contradictions ___________ in the minds of its citizens.

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. Although human interaction is often characterized by some degree of acting, how do Eastern communists take this to an extreme? How does this affect them?

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

9. Several times, Milosz describes bombed Warsaw as the cratered moon. How is this significant?

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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