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

2. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?
(a) Poets may write what content they choose as long as it follows the same form.
(b) Individual art has intrinsic value.
(c) Individual art outside the party lines has no lasting value.
(d) The state only slightly moderates art.

3. Multi-Bing pills establish ________ foundations rather than _________ .
(a) Materialistic, aesthetic.
(b) Scientific, religious.
(c) Aesthetic, religious.
(d) Philosophical, scientific.

4. According to Witkiewicz, what role does religion play in modern society?
(a) None at all.
(b) Remains only as part of the fading tradition.
(c) Slowly dying but still forceful.
(d) Actively involved.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Milosz compares the Method to what animal?

2. Every man considers his mode of life as what?

3. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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