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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. Witkiewicz's book dealt solely with what aspect of society?
(a) Salvation for mankind.
(b) Decay in society.
(c) Futuristic societies.
(d) Decay in industrial abilities.

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

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

4. The Multi-Bing pills are most tempting to what type of person?
(a) A worker.
(b) A merchant.
(c) An intellectual.
(d) A peasant.

5. As explained in Chapter 1, if a man asks the questions to which the absurd leads him, he reaches what emotional state?
(a) Hatred of himself.
(b) Hatred of the proletariat.
(c) Despair for society.
(d) Hatred of the bourgeois.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Witkiewicz thought art and philosophy were living out their last days, and how did he see their end?

3. When a man looks to the West, why does he not have clear insight?

4. Milosz says that both the old way of life and war-time values are natural if what happens?

5. Milosz explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?

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