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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a whole, Lessing considered writers to be ______________.
(a) An organism.
(b) A wasted profession.
(c) A bad influence.
(d) A plague.

2. How old is the Arthasastra?
(a) 100 years.
(b) 2,000 years.
(c) 50 years.
(d) 10,000 years.

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

4. The political group Lessing joined in Rhodesia held what hope for the world under their rule?
(a) No sexual prejudice.
(b) No crime.
(c) No racial prejudice.
(d) All of these.

5. What did Lessing reference as a method groups use to encourage others not to think?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Censorship.
(c) Book burning.
(d) Catch phrases.

6. Lessing reports that both Christians and Leftists tend to do what to their opposition?
(a) Villify.
(b) Sue.
(c) Respect.
(d) Compromise.

7. Lessing found the tree cutting to be symbolic of ____________.
(a) "Fanatical religion."
(b) "Human evolution."
(c) "Typical behavior."
(d) "Awful primitivism."

8. What is the Arthasastra about?
(a) Science.
(b) City planning.
(c) Taxing the poor.
(d) Sensible governing.

9. When the bull keeper was killed, who asked for compensation?
(a) No one.
(b) The boy's parents.
(c) The owner of the bull.
(d) The farmer.

10. Why did a member of the striking mine workers go back to work during the strike?
(a) Lack of faith in the strike leader.
(b) He agreed with the union terms.
(c) To defy his country.
(d) To get public attention.

11. According to Lessing, what do Christians believe in?
(a) Hate.
(b) Redemption.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Violence.

12. What does Lessing believe that humans know?
(a) They will never change.
(b) Killing is wrong.
(c) The power of leadership.
(d) More than they did in the past.

13. Lessing believed it common for people to embrace ________.
(a) Intelligent ideas.
(b) New leaders.
(c) Ridiculous beliefs.
(d) Progressive ideals.

14. What happened to the miner who returned to work during the miner's strike?
(a) His friends beat him.
(b) He fell through a shaft.
(c) He was a national hero.
(d) His boss killed him.

15. Growing up, Lessing was briefly a member of what party?
(a) Vigilantes.
(b) Communism.
(c) The Tea Party.
(d) Republicans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What minority did Lessing believe needed to be strengthened in order to help the future?

2. According to Lessing, what word gets people excited to fight?

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

4. Lessing referred to the sciences regarding human behavior as what type of science?

5. What position did Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. hold?

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