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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. According to Lessing, what do humans require?
(a) Free thinking.
(b) Companionship.
(c) Lots of money.
(d) Faith.

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

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

4. Lessing believes the reaction of both Christians and Leftists to opposition is a form of ___________.
(a) Public relations.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Intellectual superiority.
(d) Lunacy.

5. According to Lessing, people crave__________.
(a) Predictable behavior.
(b) All of these.
(c) Certainty.
(d) Dogma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lessing remember about the group of people in the party she briefly joined in Rhodesia?

2. What would Lessing like schools or governments to teach?

3. What surprised people who took part in the Milgram experiment?

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

5. When political groups or religions have a conflict, what does Lessing believe that those involved typically stop doing?

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