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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. Alpha's pursuit of purity in his work was driven largely by what characteristic?
2. Witkiewicz thought art and philosophy were living out their last days, and how did he see their end?
3. At the end of Chapter 3, how does Milosz succinctly define Ketman?
4. Alpha became a moral authority, as he had dreamed, because of his work in what place?
5. Milosz asserts that the man of the New Faith has the greatest fear of what action?
Short Essay Questions
1. The Red Army had no reason to help Warsaw in its battle against the Nazis. Why was this true, and how did it set the stage for the new communist government?
2. What is communism's goal for the relationship between the present and the past?
3. Why is it important that man not only be free from something but also for something?
4. Is Ketman necessary to the citizen of the New Faith? Why?
5. Why is the Ketman of revolutionary purity the most rare form of Ketman?
6. What is the difference between Eastern and Western Communists?
7. Why, in the end, could Alpha make only one decision about joining the party?
8. What is historic fatalism and how does it affect even a man's most personal interactions?
9. How does Alpha's hunger for purity and strong heroic characters prepare the way for the New Faith? Could he have gone any other way?
10. How does Ketman create pride in the man who practices it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Given the examples only of these four men, what is your impression of communism? Is it possible to get a good idea of both communist ideals and its reality by reading about their lives? Use examples from their chapters to illustrate your thoughts.
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