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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. How long did the regime in Rhodesia last?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 90 years.
(d) 20 years.

2. Lessing believed history was a great __________.
(a) Disaster.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Myth.
(d) Confusion.

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

4. What percentage of the world has a strong tendency towards leadership, according to experts?
(a) 25%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 90%
(d) 10%

5. What negative form of democracy has Lessing witnessed in her past?
(a) All of these.
(b) Shady.
(c) Dishonest.
(d) Hypocritical.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the whites feel about the blacks in Rhodesia?

2. Which sciences did Lessing feel gave the best data regarding human behavior?

3. What did Lessing believe about those living in democratic societies?

4. In Russia and Czechoslovakia, people confessed to ridiculous crimes during __________.

5. What does Lessing hope will one day change human behavior?

(see the answer key)

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