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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. What minority did Lessing believe needed to be strengthened in order to help the future?
(a) Hispanics.
(b) Blacks.
(c) The individual.
(d) Women.

2. What did Lessing reference as a method groups use to encourage others not to think?
(a) Catch phrases.
(b) Censorship.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Book burning.

3. What is the origin of the farmer who owned the bull?
(a) Australian.
(b) Scottish.
(c) British.
(d) Spanish.

4. What was an unquestionable belief held by the political party Lessing joined in Rhodesia?
(a) Blacks were superior.
(b) None of these.
(c) Communism was dead.
(d) Religion was obsolete.

5. Lessing believed that people are governed by ___________.
(a) Money.
(b) Power.
(c) Mass emotion.
(d) Mass greed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have governments in the past done to determine if government workers were behaving well?

2. What did Lessing see as a positive, in terms of brainwashing?

3. Lessing believed the ability to hold what kind of thoughts in the mind would be an example of a progressive thinker?

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

5. According to Lessing, many young people are afraid democracy will ____________.

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