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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through When in the Future They Look Back on Us.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is the Arthasastra?
(a) 100 years.
(b) 2,000 years.
(c) 50 years.
(d) 10,000 years.

2. Who wrote the Arthasastra?
(a) Chaucer.
(b) Rudyard Kipling.
(c) The Apostle Paul.
(d) Kautilya.

3. What does Lessing believe that humans know?
(a) The power of leadership.
(b) They will never change.
(c) Killing is wrong.
(d) More than they did in the past.

4. When the bull keeper was killed, who asked for compensation?
(a) No one.
(b) The owner of the bull.
(c) The boy's parents.
(d) The farmer.

5. As a whole, Lessing considered writers to be ______________.
(a) A wasted profession.
(b) An organism.
(c) A plague.
(d) A bad influence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Lessing believed it common for people to embrace ________.

3. What was remarkable about the bull this farmer owned?

4. Lessing referenced a ten-year war of independence that took place in ___________.

5. What did people think of the farmer's decision to punish the bull?

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