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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the political Left believe in, according to Lessing?
(a) Charity.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Revolution.

2. For how many years have governments and priesthoods used brainwashing techniques?
(a) Thousands.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) Decades.
(d) Never.

3. Lessing believed that a belief pattern of "you-are-damned, I-am-saved" in society is ________.
(a) Typical.
(b) Often temporary.
(c) All of these.
(d) Insane.

4. In what countries did Lessing see bloody revolutions?
(a) The United States and Canada.
(b) England and France.
(c) Germany and Spain.
(d) Russia and China.

5. What, according to Lessing, is the biggest problem people in democratic societies face?
(a) Conformity.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Lack of money.
(d) Lack of food.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What made Jean Rhys popular?

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

4. Experiments in prisons show that ordinary people _________________.

5. What surprised Lessing regarding human behavior over time?

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