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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. When was the idea of individual rights born?
(a) The English revolution.
(b) The American revolution.
(c) The French revolution.
(d) All of these.

2. Where did the miner's strike referenced by Lessing take place?
(a) United States.
(b) Australia.
(c) Britain.
(d) Chile.

3. When unprompted confessions took place during the war, what did governments begin to study?
(a) Food quality.
(b) Mental capacity.
(c) Brainwashing.
(d) Leaders.

4. What attitude did Lessing strive for, when it came to tragedy?
(a) Rage.
(b) Dispassion.
(c) Pity.
(d) Wild emotion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do countries under totalitarian rule lack?

2. Lessing referenced a ten-year war of independence that took place in ___________.

3. What percentage of the world has a strong tendency towards leadership, according to experts?

4. During Lessing's time in Rhodesia, how many people were in the political party she briefly joined?

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

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