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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. Witkiewicz thought art and philosophy were living out their last days, and how did he see their end?
(a) He couldn't wait until they were gone.
(b) He tried to slow their decay.
(c) He tried to speed their demise.
(d) He found life without them unbearable.

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

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

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

5. American politics regarded Russia's invasion of Eastern countries with what emotion?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Anger.
(c) Scorn.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1940s, once they were freed of the past, how did the Eastern countries think?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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