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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. When political groups or religions have a conflict, what does Lessing believe that those involved typically stop doing?
(a) Believing gossip.
(b) Supporting the cause.
(c) Loving their neighbor.
(d) Thinking.

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

3. What idea was popular prior to Hitler and the Cold War?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Communism.
(c) One world united.
(d) Judaism.

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

5. Lessing was shocked to learn that her friend, a born again Christian, rejected ______________.
(a) Sobriety.
(b) Creature comforts.
(c) Her family.
(d) Her country.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Lessing encouraged humans to learn from ____________.

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

5. Where did the miner's strike referenced by Lessing take place?

(see the answer key)

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