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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. According to Milosz, nations which have recently come under communist rule feel excitement at first, and then feel what emotion?
(a) That they've been lied to about the government.
(b) Sadness for the loss of their autonomy.
(c) Trepidation for their unknown future.
(d) That they've been caught in a trap like mice.

2. The purpose of Chapter 2 is to compare and contrast what two groups?
(a) Communists and capitalists.
(b) Communists and fascists.
(c) Eastern and Western communists.
(d) Eastern Europe with Eastern Asia.

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

4. During World War II, how did the nearness of death affect the Poles' lives?
(a) It made them ambivalent to the future.
(b) It instilled terror.
(c) It created a daily thankfulness for life.
(d) It destroyed all sense of shame.

5. As explained in Chapter 1, if a man asks the questions to which the absurd leads him, he reaches what emotional state?
(a) Despair for society.
(b) Hatred of the proletariat.
(c) Hatred of the bourgeois.
(d) Hatred of himself.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?

3. The most difficult thing for a man of the New Faith to conquer, according to Milosz, is his feeling of what?

4. American politics regarded Russia's invasion of Eastern countries with what emotion?

5. Witkiewicz's book dealt solely with what aspect of society?

(see the answer key)

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