29: A NEW GLOBALISM, 1989 TO THE PRESENT

Quiz for Document 29.1: Václav Havel, “Czechoslovakia Is Returning to Europe”

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1. What important capacity does Havel believe eastern Europeans bring to Western life?

Greater abilities in crafts because of communist backwardness

Higher levels of intellectual development because of less personal freedom and more time in school

Greater awareness of human suffering and values because of their experiences under communism

Greater abilities to dissect the structural failings of communism as a system

2. Havel’s speech to the U.S. Congress is most important as a sign of what development in Czechoslovakia and eastern Europe more generally?

The beginning of eastern Europeans’ ability to travel beyond the confines of the Iron Curtain

The beginning of the coming together of eastern and western Europe

The U.S. government’s appreciation of writers and other artists

The beginning of a more general appreciation of communist values