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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Laboratories of Social Change.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what purpose should people make use of current freedoms, according to Lessing?
(a) All of these.
(b) To improve society.
(c) To improve our lives.
(d) To examine ideas.

2. What country did the Shah rule?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Africa.
(c) Persia.
(d) Ghana.

3. What pseudonym did Lessing write under?
(a) Jane Somers.
(b) Jane Doe.
(c) April Smalley.
(d) Jessica Walsh.

4. What was remarkable about the bull this farmer owned?
(a) It was albino.
(b) It was wild.
(c) It was expensive.
(d) It was a half-breed.

5. When did the miner's strike referenced by Lessing take place?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1800s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1930s.

Short Answer Questions

1. People in democratic societies believe they are __________.

2. Lessing found the tree cutting to be symbolic of ____________.

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

4. According to Lessing, a true thinker does what with information?

5. Lessing believed that a belief pattern of "you-are-damned, I-am-saved" in society is ________.

(see the answer key)

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