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

2. How does Lessing describe today's society?
(a) All of these.
(b) Ignorant.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Repressed.

3. What was the result of the miner's strike?
(a) Mine explosions.
(b) Positive publicity.
(c) Rioting.
(d) Book burning.

4. The idea of public criticism is _________, according to Lessing?
(a) Typical.
(b) Boring.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) New.

5. What group did Lessing hope could make a difference in the future of society?
(a) Democrats.
(b) Old people.
(c) Young people.
(d) Republicans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did many of the victims do during the Milgram experiment?

2. What did Lessing think about the ideals held by the political group she briefly joined?

3. Lessing mentions a tree that was cut down in what country?

4. What has become a natural complement to brainwashing, according to Lessing?

5. What pseudonym did Lessing write under?

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