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

2. What nationality was Friedrich Hebbel?
(a) American.
(b) Spanish.
(c) British.
(d) Austrian.

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

4. What does Lessing hope will one day change human behavior?
(a) Awareness.
(b) Learning from our past.
(c) All of these.
(d) Scientific data.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Lessing believed the human race to be in _________.

3. Lessing found the tree cutting to be symbolic of ____________.

4. What was Lessing's attitude toward bigotry?

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

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