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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. The purpose of Chapter 2 is to compare and contrast what two groups?
(a) Eastern and Western communists.
(b) Communists and fascists.
(c) Eastern Europe with Eastern Asia.
(d) Communists and capitalists.

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

3. What phrase occurs often throughout Chapter 2?
(a) The venerable West.
(b) The cosmopolitan West.
(c) The horrific West.
(d) The decadent West.

4. By standards of the East, as compared to the West, how is anyone with talent treated?
(a) He is ignored.
(b) He is allowed to go his own way.
(c) He is rejected by the State.
(d) He is put to full use.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?

2. According to Witkiewicz, what role does religion play in modern society?

3. Milosz admits that he has great admiration for what people or force?

4. Milosz says that an individual has no more significance to the muse of history than what object?

5. In Milosz's experience, how does the East view everything from the West?

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