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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through You Are Damned, We Are Saved.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the political Left believe in, according to Lessing?
(a) Revolution.
(b) Charity.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Honesty.

3. What surprised Lessing regarding human behavior over time?
(a) The faith that has grown.
(b) How little it had changed.
(c) How much it had changed.
(d) The intelligence amassed.

4. Growing up, Lessing was briefly a member of what party?
(a) Communism.
(b) Vigilantes.
(c) The Tea Party.
(d) Republicans.

5. Lessing mentions a tree that was cut down in what country?
(a) China.
(b) Spain.
(c) Belgium.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lessing remember about the group of people in the party she briefly joined in Rhodesia?

2. Lessing referred to the sciences regarding human behavior as what type of science?

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

4. What was Lessing's concern regarding the application of science on human behavior?

5. How did the whites feel about the blacks in Rhodesia?

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