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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have governments in the past done to determine if government workers were behaving well?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Spied on them.
(c) Quizzed them.
(d) Asked around.

2. What did Lessing reference as a method groups use to encourage others not to think?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Catch phrases.
(c) Book burning.
(d) Censorship.

3. What surprised Lessing regarding human behavior over time?
(a) The faith that has grown.
(b) How little it had changed.
(c) The intelligence amassed.
(d) How much it had changed.

4. Why did a member of the striking mine workers go back to work during the strike?
(a) To defy his country.
(b) He agreed with the union terms.
(c) Lack of faith in the strike leader.
(d) To get public attention.

5. Which sciences did Lessing feel gave the best data regarding human behavior?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Psychology and social anthropology.
(c) Anthropology and archaeology.
(d) Astronomy and physiology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lessing propose that our government should do?

2. Why is it important for a leader to know what those below him are doing?

3. Lessing believed people could grow if they only detached from ___________.

4. Lessing reports that both Christians and Leftists tend to do what to their opposition?

5. Regarding the actions of their underlings, Lessing believed that leaders often knew _____________.

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