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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. According to the center, contradictions ___________ in the minds of its citizens.
2. American politics regarded Russia's invasion of Eastern countries with what emotion?
3. What school of thought gave Alpha the tragic language he needed?
4. The purpose of Chapter 2 is to compare and contrast what two groups?
5. Defining good and evil outside of party interests is what type of Ketman?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is historic fatalism and how does it affect even a man's most personal interactions?
2. 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?
3. The East uses talented artists to their full ability, yet sometimes with mediocre results. Why does this happen?
4. 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?
5. What significance is there in the fact that Murti-Bing comes in pill form?
6. The pill takes away man's metaphysical concerns--why is this significant?
7. Why does the man entering the gate of communism feel that he is doing something wrong?
8. "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?
9. Although only a couple presses were kept intact, in order to print Nazi propaganda, the underground writing flourished. Why?
10. What is the difference between Eastern and Western Communists?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
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?)
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