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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) Decay in industrial abilities.
(b) Futuristic societies.
(c) Salvation for mankind.
(d) Decay in society.

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

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

4. Chapter 2 notes that though it is good to be free from something, how does freedom become better?
(a) To work.
(b) To rest.
(c) For something.
(d) From many things.

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 the bourgeois.
(b) Despair for society.
(c) Hatred of himself.
(d) Hatred of the proletariat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the 1940s, once they were freed of the past, how did the Eastern countries think?

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

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

5. During World War II, how did the nearness of death affect the Poles' lives?

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