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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 minority did Lessing believe needed to be strengthened in order to help the future?
(a) Women.
(b) Hispanics.
(c) The individual.
(d) Blacks.

2. In what time period did Lessing grow up?
(a) The sixties.
(b) The turn of the century.
(c) Post World War II.
(d) Pre World War II.

3. According to Lessing, what religion has encouraged Europeans to kill in the name of God?
(a) Agnostics.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Muslim.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was remarkable about the bull this farmer owned?

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

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

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