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

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

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

4. The Arthasastra mentions that it is only ________ in a line of books.
(a) The most memorable.
(b) The most important.
(c) One of many.
(d) A holy respite.

5. What does Lessing remember about the group of people in the party she briefly joined in Rhodesia?
(a) They were well-read.
(b) They were normal.
(c) All of these.
(d) They were fun.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a whole, Lessing considered writers to be ______________.

2. According to Lessing, people crave__________.

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

4. When did the miner's strike referenced by Lessing take place?

5. Lessing reports that both Christians and Leftists tend to do what to their opposition?

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