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Multiple Choice Questions

1. At a popular university, a researcher had the ability to control a subject by __________.
(a) Playing music.
(b) Food rationing.
(c) Brainwashing.
(d) Limiting exercise.

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

3. What is the origin of the farmer who owned the bull?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Scottish.
(c) Australian.
(d) British.

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

5. When the bull keeper was killed, who asked for compensation?
(a) No one.
(b) The boy's parents.
(c) The owner of the bull.
(d) The farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Lessing believe the bull owner had no control over his response?

2. What is the Arthasastra about?

3. Who was surprised by what happened to the miner who returned to work during the miner's strike?

4. Lessing believed that anyone studying sects was susceptible to ______________.

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

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