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

2. In Milosz's experience, how does the East view everything from the West?
(a) Good.
(b) Unnecessary
(c) Evil.
(d) Pure.

3. Milosz asserts that the man of the New Faith has the greatest fear of what action?
(a) Acting based on others' decisions.
(b) Thinking for others.
(c) Losing the capability to reason.
(d) Thinking for himself.

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

5. Cosmopolitanism, as defined by communism, is what thought?
(a) Admiration for all cultures.
(b) Admiration for the Western bourgeois cultures.
(c) Fear of the Western bourgeois cultures.
(d) Admiration for all countries in the communist bloc.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Milosz's experience, how does a man change under communist rule?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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