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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. American politics regarded Russia's invasion of Eastern countries with what emotion?
(a) Anger.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Fear.
(d) Scorn.

2. Witkiewicz thought art and philosophy were living out their last days, and how did he see their end?
(a) He found life without them unbearable.
(b) He tried to slow their decay.
(c) He tried to speed their demise.
(d) He couldn't wait until they were gone.

3. Milosz's book The Captive Mind deals with what subject?
(a) What he heard about after living in the United States.
(b) Fictional characters.
(c) Society some time in the future.
(d) What he experienced living in Poland.

4. In Milosz's experience, how does the East view everything from the West?
(a) Good.
(b) Unnecessary
(c) Evil.
(d) Pure.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The most difficult thing for a man of the New Faith to conquer, according to Milosz, is his feeling of what?

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

4. In 1932, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz wrote a book entitled what?

5. Cosmopolitanism, as defined by communism, is what thought?

(see the answer key)

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