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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. How prevalent is National Ketman?
2. Every man considers his mode of life as what?
3. In a communist country, what is perhaps the best way to ensure one's safety?
4. In Chapter 4, who is Alpha, the Moralist?
5. Alpha's pursuit of purity in his work was driven largely by what characteristic?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the man entering the gate of communism feel that he is doing something wrong?
2. Why does aesthetic Ketman flourish, when nothing of the sort is necessary in other countries?
3. Although human interaction is often characterized by some degree of acting, how do Eastern communists take this to an extreme? How does this affect them?
4. Why is it important that man not only be free from something but also for something?
5. Why is the Ketman of revolutionary purity the most rare form of Ketman?
6. The East uses talented artists to their full ability, yet sometimes with mediocre results. Why does this happen?
7. Is Ketman necessary to the citizen of the New Faith? Why?
8. 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?
9. What is communism's goal for the relationship between the present and the past?
10. Although only a couple presses were kept intact, in order to print Nazi propaganda, the underground writing flourished. Why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Though many human interactions are characterized by some degree of acting, the citizens of Soviet countries are forced to take this to an extreme. What does this tell us about the relationship between communist ideals and the individual? What should the role of government be in an individual's life? To what degree is this a perversion of how it should be? Or is this justified in the name of communist ideals?
Essay Topic 2
Milosz asserts that the way to rule a nation's mind is through the word. Is this true or are there other factors equally important? Given what he says about both Nazi and communist controls over the printed word, how was this played out in Poland?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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