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

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

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

4. By standards of the East, as compared to the West, how is anyone with talent treated?
(a) He is ignored.
(b) He is put to full use.
(c) He is rejected by the State.
(d) He is allowed to go his own way.

5. Art and literature of the party prove to the intellectual that what is true about the world?
(a) Things can be different if he works hard enough.
(b) Things cannot be different than they are.
(c) Only Western influence can change things.
(d) Only the party can change things.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Milosz says that an individual has no more significance to the muse of history than what object?

5. Milosz asserts that the man of the New Faith has the greatest fear of what action?

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