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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. According to Lessing, what word gets people excited to fight?
(a) "Blood."
(b) "Violence."
(c) "Justice."
(d) "Hatred."

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

3. Lessing would like society to be ___________.
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Scientifically advanced.
(c) Brutal.
(d) Kinder.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what time period did Lessing grow up?

3. What was the race of the boy the bull killed?

4. What was Lessing's attitude toward bigotry?

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

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