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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. Why are workers told that it is a crime to strike?
2. What did Gamma's second wife wear?
3. When a man refuses to become a shock-worker in a factory, what does he soon find?
4. In the concentration camp, what is Beta's job?
5. Often when Milosz sees women walking through the streets of Paris, what does he remember?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the peasants, in several ways, the most helpless class of people?
2. Nearly six years of Nazi rule had radically changed people's ideas of private property. Did this help or harm the communist idea of common property?
3. In Chapter VIII, Milosz takes on the tone of a communist to describe the evils of the various classes. How is this more powerful than a mere description?
4. Under communist rule, education is from a strictly materialistic view. Why is this necessary to maintain proper thought among the citizens?
5. Eventually Delta's poems became something of a dream, unreal. How was this inevitable?
6. Why does Milosz go to such pains to describe Gamma, when the other writers found in his book are given only a few sentences of description?
7. How was Delta's poetry some of the most insightful work being written at the time?
8. Gamma did not even try to save his family when they were deported to Siberia. How is this a vivid example of the communist attitude toward individual lives?
9. Why is Gamma called "the slave of history"? Whose interests does he serve?
10. How was Delta able to play the game that the center demanded of him--and be better at it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Given the examples only of these four men, what is your impression of communism? Is it possible to get a good idea of both communist ideals and its reality by reading about their lives? Use examples from their chapters to illustrate your thoughts.
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
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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