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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 the Chapter 2, what does the Method emphasize about change?
(a) Fluidity of phenomena.
(b) Moderate, deliberate change.
(c) Stasis.
(d) Exercise of critical faculties.

2. Peasants, in Milosz's understanding, assert what about their lives?
(a) They are perfectly happy with their lives.
(b) Communism is their only salvation.
(c) Change must come.
(d) Feudalism is their only salvation.

3. Witkiewicz thought art and philosophy were living out their last days, and how did he see their end?
(a) He found life without them unbearable.
(b) He couldn't wait until they were gone.
(c) He tried to speed their demise.
(d) He tried to slow their decay.

4. When a man looks to the West, why does he not have clear insight?
(a) His emotions interfere.
(b) The party center obscures the truth.
(c) Life in the East has drastically shaped his view.
(d) He cannot be realistic.

5. Milosz compares the Method to what animal?
(a) A powerful bird whose wing is broken.
(b) A fox, wily enough to deceive those who are skeptical.
(c) An ox, strong enough to bear the weight of reality.
(d) A snake, for which the tail begins at any point.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does the Eastern communist regard everything from the West?

4. Russian engineers and doctors ________ Western innovations.

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

(see the answer key)

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