Prisons We Choose to Live Inside Test | Final Test - Easy

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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many books did Lessing write under a pseudonym?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

2. What country did the Shah rule?
(a) Africa.
(b) Ghana.
(c) Persia.
(d) Egypt.

3. Why is it important for a leader to know what those below him are doing?
(a) To maintain power.
(b) To protect citizens.
(c) Their actions represent him.
(d) All of these.

4. Lessing is concerned that too many people are __________ about group psychology.
(a) Lackadaisical.
(b) Excited..
(c) Doubtful.
(d) Squeamish.

5. During experiments, individuals have been shown to __________.
(a) Think individually.
(b) Panic.
(c) Cry out for companionship.
(d) Give into the group.

6. What, according to Lessing, is the biggest problem people in democratic societies face?
(a) Lack of money.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Conformity.
(d) Lack of food.

7. People in democratic societies believe they are __________.
(a) Important.
(b) Helpful.
(c) Free.
(d) Rich.

8. Regarding the actions of their underlings, Lessing believed that leaders often knew _____________.
(a) Everything.
(b) Only positive actions.
(c) Little of what is happening.
(d) Only negative actions.

9. What have governments in the past done to determine if government workers were behaving well?
(a) Asked around.
(b) Quizzed them.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Spied on them.

10. What made Jean Rhys popular?
(a) A successful book.
(b) A stint in office.
(c) Charity work.
(d) A public affair.

11. Lessing believed that any sane person is susceptible to __________.
(a) Consumerism.
(b) Ardent patriotism.
(c) Love.
(d) Brainwashing.

12. In what country was the Gettysburg Address made?
(a) England.
(b) Cuba.
(c) France.
(d) The United States.

13. After the prison experiment, what did the subjects feel?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Disappointment.
(c) Fear.
(d) Surprise.

14. Experiments in prisons show that ordinary people _________________.
(a) Adjust well to incarceration.
(b) Adopt prison behaviors.
(c) Try to escape.
(d) Tell on the inmates.

15. In Russia and Czechoslovakia, people confessed to ridiculous crimes during __________.
(a) The Scholar Trials.
(b) The Interest Investigation.
(c) The Show Trials.
(d) The No Trials.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the group mind often discourage, according to Lessing?

2. What are some of the steps in brainwashing?

3. In Lessing's opinion, elitism is _____________.

4. What happened to the man who named his cat "King of Kings"?

5. Experiments in mental hospitals have shown sane people mistaken for _______________.

(see the answer keys)

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