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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. Chapter 2 notes that though it is good to be free from something, how does freedom become better?
2. Milosz explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?
3. Milosz compares the American law system to what image?
4. Fifty years of re-education within the party can change entire nations so that they become what?
5. Milosz ends Chapter I with the question:
Short Essay Questions
1. Why, in the end, could Alpha make only one decision about joining the party?
2. How does Ketman create pride in the man who practices it?
3. The East uses talented artists to their full ability, yet sometimes with mediocre results. Why does this happen?
4. Why, according to party policy, can there be no contradictions in the minds of Soviet citizens?
5. What is communism's goal for the relationship between the present and the past?
6. Why is cosmopolitanism linked to nationalist concerns? What does the center gain by connecting these?
7. 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?
8. What significance is there in the fact that Murti-Bing comes in pill form?
9. "If something exists in one place, it will exist everywhere" (pg. 29). Why does the man in destroyed Warsaw believe this, and how does it affect his spirit?
10. Why is it important that man not only be free from something but also for something?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The West, in not taking advantage of every artist, wastes a huge amount of talent. Is the East's method better or worse? Is there an ideal system in which exceptional artists are appreciated without conforming to a particular method?
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
Beta's stories portray man as an animal, barely held in check by the restraints of civilization. How is this demonstrated in Poland during World War II? Given the progression of Poland through capitalism, Nazism, and communism, was man's good or animal side stronger? Which one triumphed? Also, use examples from the book of people acting out of goodness.
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