Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. While talking to Beker, who is about to be burned at the crematorium because he is too weak to work, what is Beta's attitude?
2. When man is faced with constant death and when life seems meaningless, how does dialectical materialism seem?
3. Delta would have fit well into what time period?
4. In the concentration camp, what is Beta's job?
5. In Chapter 8, how does the party treat whatever is not expressed?
Short Essay Questions
1. How was Delta able to play the game that the center demanded of him--and be better at it?
2. Beta's anger toward mankind became directed toward a fear of self-deception. How did this happen?
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. Milosz calls Beta's reaction to the concentration camp life sadistic. How is this true?
6. How are the peasants, in several ways, the most helpless class of people?
7. Milosz writes that Delta could not (or would not) distinguish between truth and fable, even in his personal life. Is this the kind of mind the Party would have wanted?
8. Rather than blaming these four men for the choices they made, Milosz says they were slaves to history. How is this true?
9. How could Delta, who was not racist, write such violently anti-Semitic material?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Why is art outside the public mind important? Milosz says that when man thinks only in the collective body, he can no longer think other than what is necessary. In other words, personal observations and thoughts are cut off. Why, then, does he place such importance on creating art other than what is strictly necessary?
Essay Topic 3
Milosz asserts that the way to rule a nation's mind is through the word. Is this true or are there other factors equally important? Given what he says about both Nazi and communist controls over the printed word, how was this played out in Poland?
|
This section contains 1,278 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
