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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. Milosz admits that he has great admiration for what people or force?
2. In Witkeiwicz's novel, if man is attuned to the absurd, what does he see?
3. Milosz's book The Captive Mind deals with what subject?
4. Milosz explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?
5. As far as man's preferences in Western art and literature, what aspect does Milosz refer to?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. From several references to Tito throughout Chapters 2 and 3, what can the reader infer about him? What does the center gain by making an example of him?
3. Why does man find such joy in the "collective warmth" of which Milosz speaks?
4. Why is the Ketman of revolutionary purity the most rare form of Ketman?
5. Why does aesthetic Ketman flourish, when nothing of the sort is necessary in other countries?
6. Why is it important that man not only be free from something but also for something?
7. Although only a couple presses were kept intact, in order to print Nazi propaganda, the underground writing flourished. Why?
8. Why does the man entering the gate of communism feel that he is doing something wrong?
9. 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?
10. The East uses talented artists to their full ability, yet sometimes with mediocre results. Why does this happen?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
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?
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