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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. Russian engineers and doctors ________ Western innovations.
(a) Sell.
(b) Anticipate.
(c) Ignore.
(d) Copy.

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

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

4. Chapter 2 opens with the picture of the Eastern communists looking to the West with what emotion/s?
(a) A mixture of hope and despair.
(b) Anger and confusion.
(c) Disillusionment.
(d) Unabashed hope.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Milosz ends Chapter I with the question:

3. Milosz's book The Captive Mind deals with what subject?

4. Art and literature of the party prove to the intellectual that what is true about the world?

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

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