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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Laboratories of Social Change.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lessing believes the reaction of both Christians and Leftists to opposition is a form of ___________.
(a) Intellectual superiority.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Lunacy.
(d) Public relations.

2. What was the original intent of communism?
(a) Individual celebration.
(b) Foolery.
(c) Financial gain.
(d) Justice.

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

4. In Lessing's opinion, elitism is _____________.
(a) Snobby.
(b) All of these.
(c) Unfashionable.
(d) Intelligent.

5. What type of exposure leads the public to feel less for terrible disasters?
(a) Abrupt.
(b) Unflattering.
(c) Media.
(d) Government.

Short Answer Questions

1. What members of the public eye, according to Lessing, often repeat words and phrases to breed familiarity?

2. What did Lessing reference as a method groups use to encourage others not to think?

3. When did the miner's strike referenced by Lessing take place?

4. During the Milgram experiment, people were instructed to give other people _____________.

5. Lessing believed that anyone studying sects was susceptible to ______________.

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