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

2. How does the Eastern communist regard everything from the West?
(a) With deep confusion.
(b) With loud enthusiasm.
(c) With strong criticism.
(d) With antipathy.

3. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?
(a) Heavenly.
(b) Mathematical.
(c) Timely.
(d) Earthy.

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

5. The center planned that all Eastern European countries would speak which language?
(a) Russian.
(b) Polish.
(c) Czechoslovakian.
(d) Lithuanian.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In the eyes of the besieged Pole, what is the only poetry that will last?

4. In Milosz's experience, how does a man change under communist rule?

5. Milosz ends Chapter I with the question:

(see the answer key)

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