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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Group Minds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Experiments in prisons show that ordinary people _________________.
(a) Adopt prison behaviors.
(b) Adjust well to incarceration.
(c) Try to escape.
(d) Tell on the inmates.

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

3. What type of exposure leads the public to feel less for terrible disasters?
(a) Government.
(b) Media.
(c) Abrupt.
(d) Unflattering.

4. What does Lessing believe that humans know?
(a) They will never change.
(b) More than they did in the past.
(c) Killing is wrong.
(d) The power of leadership.

5. According to Lessing, what do novelists have the ability to do?
(a) Dumb down society.
(b) Slander whoever they want.
(c) Reflect human behavior.
(d) Make money in the arts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lessing is concerned that too many people are __________ about group psychology.

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

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

4. According to Lessing, what are power structures across the globe putting into practice?

5. In what country was the Gettysburg Address made?

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