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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 to Witkiewicz, what role does religion play in modern society?
(a) Slowly dying but still forceful.
(b) Actively involved.
(c) None at all.
(d) Remains only as part of the fading tradition.

2. As explained in Chapter 1, if a man asks the questions to which the absurd leads him, he reaches what emotional state?
(a) Despair for society.
(b) Hatred of the proletariat.
(c) Hatred of himself.
(d) Hatred of the bourgeois.

3. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?
(a) History will again favor the bourgeois.
(b) Fascism paves the road for communism.
(c) History favors communism but allows capitalism to remain.
(d) History has condemned capitalism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Witkiewicz's novel, the characters ultimately become:

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

3. According to Milosz, nations which have recently come under communist rule feel excitement at first, and then feel what emotion?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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