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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. The center planned that all Eastern European countries would speak which language?
(a) Czechoslovakian.
(b) Russian.
(c) Lithuanian.
(d) Polish.

2. Witkiewicz's book dealt solely with what aspect of society?
(a) Salvation for mankind.
(b) Decay in society.
(c) Futuristic societies.
(d) Decay in industrial abilities.

3. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?
(a) Individual art has intrinsic value.
(b) Poets may write what content they choose as long as it follows the same form.
(c) Individual art outside the party lines has no lasting value.
(d) The state only slightly moderates art.

4. Milosz's book The Captive Mind deals with what subject?
(a) Fictional characters.
(b) Society some time in the future.
(c) What he heard about after living in the United States.
(d) What he experienced living in Poland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By standards of the East, as compared to the West, how is anyone with talent treated?

2. Why, as Chapter 2 explains, do Eastern communists look to the West?

3. Chapter 2 notes that though it is good to be free from something, how does freedom become better?

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

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

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