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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. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?
(a) Heavenly.
(b) Mathematical.
(c) Earthy.
(d) Timely.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Witkeiwicz's novel, if man is attuned to the absurd, what does he see?

3. The center planned that all Eastern European countries would speak which language?

4. In Milosz's experience, how does a man change under communist rule?

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

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