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

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

3. In Witkeiwicz's novel, if man is attuned to the absurd, what does he see?
(a) People's individual lives are meaningless.
(b) His own life is worthless.
(c) There is no hope of salvation, either earthly or heavenly.
(d) The state is meaningless.

4. Russian engineers and doctors ________ Western innovations.
(a) Copy.
(b) Ignore.
(c) Sell.
(d) Anticipate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the mid-twentieth century, many European nations realized that they could be directly influenced by what force?

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

3. Milosz compares the American law system to what image?

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

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

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