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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. In the United States, people confessed to ridiculous crimes during _____________.
(a) The winter.
(b) The witch hunts.
(c) The rule of Abe Lincoln.
(d) The elections.

2. What was an unquestionable belief held by the political party Lessing joined in Rhodesia?
(a) Communism was dead.
(b) Blacks were superior.
(c) Religion was obsolete.
(d) None of these.

3. What was Lessing's attitude toward bigotry?
(a) She perpetuated it.
(b) None of these.
(c) She was against it.
(d) She accepted it.

4. What has become a natural complement to brainwashing, according to Lessing?
(a) Power.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Technology.

5. Lessing mentions a tree that was cut down in what country?
(a) China.
(b) Spain.
(c) France.
(d) Belgium.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What position did Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. hold?

3. When the bull keeper was killed, who asked for compensation?

4. How might it benefit a leader to be unaware if his regime is treating the people poorly?

5. What does every country perpetuate to some extent, according to Lessing?

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