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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. Lessing believed that a belief pattern of "you-are-damned, I-am-saved" in society is ________.
(a) Often temporary.
(b) Insane.
(c) All of these.
(d) Typical.

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

3. What is the Arthasastra about?
(a) Taxing the poor.
(b) Sensible governing.
(c) Science.
(d) City planning.

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

5. When did the political group Lessing belonged to in Rhodesia fall apart?
(a) During the war.
(b) In the 1980's.
(c) After the war.
(d) When she betrayed it.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Lessing, what do novelists have the ability to do?

2. According to Lessing, what do Christians believe in?

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

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

5. Where did Lessing grow up?

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