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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. How can the relationship between Gamma and the author be described?
2. Beta wrote poems characterized by what?
3. Why are workers told that it is a crime to strike?
4. What happened when Beta's artistic talent moved to the furthest boundaries of communist dictates?
5. Beta described the concentration camp as he saw it; how should he have described it?
Short Essay Questions
1. Beta saw life only in terms of society rather than in terms of individual man. How was this his downfall?
2. Under communist rule, education is from a strictly materialistic view. Why is this necessary to maintain proper thought among the citizens?
3. How does the party's definition of a reactionary reduce him to a comic level?
4. Milosz states that the goals of the workers are far different from those of the state. How is this so?
5. Why is Gamma called "the slave of history"? Whose interests does he serve?
6. Delta, in wandering the roads in France, met people from many different nations. How did this universal migration prepare the way even more for communist rule?
7. Beta's anger toward mankind became directed toward a fear of self-deception. How did this happen?
8. 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?
9. How were Beta's stories a fitting insight into his nihilist worldview?
10. Eventually Delta's poems became something of a dream, unreal. How was this inevitable?
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
Milosz repeatedly returns to the idea that religion is dead. Is this true? If so, how is it replaced in modern society? Keep in mind his argument that man craves the mysterious, and so religion is necessarily replaced.
Essay Topic 3
Beta's stories portray man as an animal, barely held in check by the restraints of civilization. How is this demonstrated in Poland during World War II? Given the progression of Poland through capitalism, Nazism, and communism, was man's good or animal side stronger? Which one triumphed? Also, use examples from the book of people acting out of goodness.
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