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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Switching Off to See Dallas.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does every country perpetuate to some extent, according to Lessing?
(a) Brainwashing.
(b) Celebration.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) False modesty.

2. Lessing believed history was a great __________.
(a) Confusion.
(b) Myth.
(c) Disaster.
(d) Teacher.

3. What nationality was Friedrich Hebbel?
(a) Spanish.
(b) American.
(c) British.
(d) Austrian.

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

5. Lessing believed that anyone studying sects was susceptible to ______________.
(a) Going crazy.
(b) Not taking the study seriously.
(c) Believing their doctrine.
(d) Accusing innocent people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lessing felt that what type of response should be the only response to wild emotionalism?

2. When did the political group Lessing belonged to in Rhodesia fall apart?

3. Lessing would like society to be ___________.

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

5. What happened to the miner who returned to work during the miner's strike?

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