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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 Method to what animal?
(a) A powerful bird whose wing is broken.
(b) A snake, for which the tail begins at any point.
(c) A fox, wily enough to deceive those who are skeptical.
(d) An ox, strong enough to bear the weight of reality.

2. In the eyes of the besieged Pole, what is the only poetry that will last?
(a) Poetry that is unquestionably real.
(b) Poetry that is most amusing.
(c) Poetry that is most vivid to the reader.
(d) Poetry that has most affected the writer.

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

4. Why, as Chapter 2 explains, do Eastern communists look to the West?
(a) The New Faith cannot satisfy their emotional needs.
(b) The New Faith allows it.
(c) The New Faith cannot satisfy their spiritual needs.
(d) They are curious.

5. Milosz admits that he has great admiration for what people or force?
(a) The people who bring about change.
(b) The impersonal forces of history.
(c) The philosophers who prepare the way for change.
(d) The people who fight evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Milosz says that both the old way of life and war-time values are natural if what happens?

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

3. Cosmopolitanism, as defined by communism, is what thought?

4. Dialectical materialism appeals to the Eastern man because it is, in Milosz's term, what?

5. What is the basis of dialectical materialism, in Milosz's understanding?

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