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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. After two years, Delta returned again to favor, and how did his future look?
2. What view of Poland's past did Delta's poetry present?
3. As detailed in Chapter 6, what was the first maxim of the communist rule as it established power in a newly-conquered country?
4. Beta wrote poems characterized by what?
5. How can the relationship between Gamma and the author be described?
Short Essay Questions
1. How could Delta, who was not racist, write such violently anti-Semitic material?
2. 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?
3. Under communist rule, education is from a strictly materialistic view. Why is this necessary to maintain proper thought among the citizens?
4. Milosz calls Beta's reaction to the concentration camp life sadistic. How is this true?
5. Eventually Delta's poems became something of a dream, unreal. How was this inevitable?
6. "Still, it was not easy to become a communist, for communism meant a complete revision of one's concepts of nationality " (pg. 147). How was this true?
7. 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?
8. Beta saw life only in terms of society rather than in terms of individual man. How was this his downfall?
9. Beta's anger toward mankind became directed toward a fear of self-deception. How did this happen?
10. Milosz opens Chapter VI with a description of Vilna as it existed during his childhood. Is this simply to introduce Gamma or is there another reason?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the relationship between Western and Eastern communism? How do the citizens of each sphere think about and react to each other? Find specific examples of their current interactions, and project the outcome of these to the future. Will they always look at the world through such disparate viewpoints?
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
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?
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