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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. In a communist country, what is perhaps the best way to ensure one's safety?
2. What do the Party dialecticians assert about art?
3. According the Chapter 2, what does the Method emphasize about change?
4. What phrase occurs often throughout Chapter 2?
5. In order to kept his apartment and good political standing, the man practicing aesthetic Ketman is willing to do what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Is Ketman necessary to the citizen of the New Faith? Why?
2. Why is the Ketman of revolutionary purity the most rare form of Ketman?
3. What advantages does the Center gain with the idea of "cosmopolitanism"?
4. 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?
5. Why is cosmopolitanism linked to nationalist concerns? What does the center gain by connecting these?
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. The East uses talented artists to their full ability, yet sometimes with mediocre results. Why does this happen?
9. Why does the man entering the gate of communism feel that he is doing something wrong?
10. Several times, Milosz describes bombed Warsaw as the cratered moon. How is this significant?
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
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 3
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?
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