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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to the center, contradictions ___________ in the minds of its citizens.
2. The center planned that all Eastern European countries would speak which language?
3. Chapter 2 opens with the picture of the Eastern communists looking to the West with what emotion/s?
4. Milosz illustrates Ketman with the example of what person?
5. American politics regarded Russia's invasion of Eastern countries with what emotion?
Short Essay Questions
1. Although only a couple presses were kept intact, in order to print Nazi propaganda, the underground writing flourished. Why?
2. If an artist disagrees with the dialectical method, he debates the question with a panel of Party authorities and always, undoubtedly loses. Why is this so?
3. Why does the Eastern communist often call the West stupid?
4. What significance is there in the fact that Murti-Bing comes in pill form?
5. When the Nazis invaded Warsaw, every man quickly changed his view of the world. Rather than reporting a corpse lying in the gutter, he passes quietly on. What does this say about man's state of mind then?
6. Why, according to party policy, can there be no contradictions in the minds of Soviet citizens?
7. What is the difference between Eastern and Western Communists?
8. How does national Ketman satisfy, as much as possible, the nationalist leanings in a man? Why is this an important Ketman?
9. Why does aesthetic Ketman flourish, when nothing of the sort is necessary in other countries?
10. Why does man find such joy in the "collective warmth" of which Milosz speaks?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The reader sees, through many examples, that communism seeks to further its rule at all cost, even if that cost be millions of lives. Is this necessary for the continuance of communism, or is there another way? To what extent should a government assert itself on the lives of its citizens in order to survive?
Essay Topic 2
In different ways, the Polish people learned to contain and even condense their emotions, letting only the most elemental emotions show. What does this say about man's ability to survive difficult times? To what extent were the people reduced to the physiological level of hunted animals? Use examples from the book to show how emotions were stripped down to their most basic level.
Essay Topic 3
Throughout the book, the converts to communism decry the evils of capitalism, even going so far as to say capitalism led directly to Hitlerism (pg. 128, Beta's assertion). Is this necessarily true? If communism leads, as history has proven, to a dictatorship, then where does capitalism lead?
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