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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Looking to the West.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Witkeiwicz's novel, if man is attuned to the absurd, what does he see?
(a) His own life is worthless.
(b) There is no hope of salvation, either earthly or heavenly.
(c) People's individual lives are meaningless.
(d) The state is meaningless.

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

3. Milosz says that both the old way of life and war-time values are natural if what happens?
(a) They are within a person's experience.
(b) The government prepares for them.
(c) The church sanctions them.
(d) They come without warning.

4. The most difficult thing for a man of the New Faith to conquer, according to Milosz, is his feeling of what?
(a) Suspicion.
(b) Trepidation.
(c) Elation.
(d) Guilt.

5. Milosz compares the American law system to what image?
(a) People in a raft paddling different directions.
(b) A powerful ship.
(c) A man drowning at sea.
(d) A man alone on a log raft.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Multi-Bing pills are most tempting to what type of person?

2. Multi-Bing pills establish ________ foundations rather than _________ .

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

4. Chapter 2 notes that though it is good to be free from something, how does freedom become better?

5. The center planned that all Eastern European countries would speak which language?

(see the answer key)

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