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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 says that both the old way of life and war-time values are natural if what happens?
2. According the Chapter 2, what does the Method emphasize about change?
3. In Witkiewicz's novel, the characters ultimately become:
4. Milosz explains that people who enter into the state feel what emotion?
5. In 1932, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz wrote a book entitled what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is cosmopolitanism linked to nationalist concerns? What does the center gain by connecting these?
2. Although only a couple presses were kept intact, in order to print Nazi propaganda, the underground writing flourished. Why?
3. What is the difference between Eastern and Western Communists?
4. "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?
5. How does Ketman create pride in the man who practices it?
6. What is communism's goal for the relationship between the present and the past?
7. What is historic fatalism and how does it affect even a man's most personal interactions?
8. Why does the man entering the gate of communism feel that he is doing something wrong?
9. Why is the Ketman of revolutionary purity the most rare form of Ketman?
10. Why, in the end, could Alpha make only one decision about joining the party?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Several people in The Captive Mind believe that life without religion, philosophy, and art is not worth living. Is this true? Are there necessary things which this list does not include or, conversely, is the list too long? Be sure to define the terms clearly (e.g., is art a painting hung on the wall, or is it the beauty found throughout the world?)
Essay Topic 2
Milosz begins Chapter 4 by saying that the ethical and moral considerations that helped man make decisions in the past have become merely theoretical, inconsequential in the face of changes. What does this say about the changes brought on Eastern Europe from the mid-1930s onward? Given what you know of European history, how were these changes radically different from anything that had come before?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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