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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through You Are Damned, We Are Saved.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the miner's strike referenced by Lessing take place?
(a) Australia.
(b) United States.
(c) Britain.
(d) Chile.

2. Lessing believed it common for people to embrace ________.
(a) Intelligent ideas.
(b) Ridiculous beliefs.
(c) New leaders.
(d) Progressive ideals.

3. Lessing found the tree cutting to be symbolic of ____________.
(a) "Awful primitivism."
(b) "Human evolution."
(c) "Fanatical religion."
(d) "Typical behavior."

4. According to Lessing, what religion has encouraged Europeans to kill in the name of God?
(a) Muslim.
(b) Agnostics.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Judaism.

5. According to Lessing, what word gets people excited to fight?
(a) "Violence."
(b) "Justice."
(c) "Blood."
(d) "Hatred."

Short Answer Questions

1. Lessing would like society to be ___________.

2. What was an unquestionable belief held by the political party Lessing joined in Rhodesia?

3. Growing up, Lessing was briefly a member of what party?

4. Lessing referred to the sciences regarding human behavior as what type of science?

5. According to Lessing, people crave__________.

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