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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 found the tree cutting to be symbolic of ____________.
(a) "Human evolution."
(b) "Awful primitivism."
(c) "Typical behavior."
(d) "Fanatical religion."

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

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

4. The tree was cut down for its association with _____________.
(a) Religion.
(b) A foreign Colonel.
(c) A dictator.
(d) A traitor.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Lessing mentions a tree that was cut down in what country?

3. What did the farmer do to punish the bull for its kill?

4. What position did Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. hold?

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

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