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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 admits that he has great admiration for what people or force?
(a) The impersonal forces of history.
(b) The people who bring about change.
(c) The philosophers who prepare the way for change.
(d) The people who fight evil.

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

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

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

5. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?
(a) History favors communism but allows capitalism to remain.
(b) History has condemned capitalism.
(c) History will again favor the bourgeois.
(d) Fascism paves the road for communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Witkeiwicz's novel, if man is attuned to the absurd, what does he see?

2. According to Witkiewicz, what role does religion play in modern society?

3. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?

4. In Witkiewicz's novel, the characters ultimately become:

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

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