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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. Cosmopolitanism, as defined by communism, is what thought?
(a) Admiration for the Western bourgeois cultures.
(b) Fear of the Western bourgeois cultures.
(c) Admiration for all countries in the communist bloc.
(d) Admiration for all cultures.

2. How do the Multi-Bing pills change a man?
(a) They create nervousness and tension.
(b) They erase all metaphysical concerns.
(c) They make him more productive in society.
(d) They erase vestiges of harmful personality.

3. The most difficult thing for a man of the New Faith to conquer, according to Milosz, is his feeling of what?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Elation.
(c) Trepidation.
(d) Suspicion.

4. Milosz says that an individual has no more significance to the muse of history than what object?
(a) A weed in a field.
(b) An instrument in an orchestra.
(c) An atom in space.
(d) A cog in a machine.

5. Russian engineers and doctors ________ Western innovations.
(a) Anticipate.
(b) Sell.
(c) Ignore.
(d) Copy.

Short Answer Questions

1. As far as man's preferences in Western art and literature, what aspect does Milosz refer to?

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

3. Milosz's book The Captive Mind deals with what subject?

4. What phrase occurs often throughout Chapter 2?

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

(see the answer key)

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