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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 compares the American law system to what image?
(a) A man drowning at sea.
(b) People in a raft paddling different directions.
(c) A powerful ship.
(d) A man alone on a log raft.

2. Witkiewicz's book dealt solely with what aspect of society?
(a) Decay in industrial abilities.
(b) Salvation for mankind.
(c) Decay in society.
(d) Futuristic societies.

3. Every man considers his mode of life as what?
(a) Necessary.
(b) Unnatural.
(c) Destined to change.
(d) Natural.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Milosz explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?

2. How do the Multi-Bing pills change a man?

3. In Milosz's experience, how does the East view everything from the West?

4. When a man looks to the West, why does he not have clear insight?

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

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