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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lessing was shocked to learn that her friend, a born again Christian, rejected ______________.
(a) Her country.
(b) Her family.
(c) Creature comforts.
(d) Sobriety.

2. Who wrote the Arthasastra?
(a) Rudyard Kipling.
(b) Chaucer.
(c) Kautilya.
(d) The Apostle Paul.

3. What did people think of the farmer's decision to punish the bull?
(a) It was foolish.
(b) It was wise.
(c) It was symbolic.
(d) It was necessary.

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

5. Lessing believed people could grow if they only detached from ___________.
(a) The idea of love.
(b) Lessons from the past.
(c) Mass emotion.
(d) Their family.

6. The tree was cut down for its association with _____________.
(a) Religion.
(b) A foreign Colonel.
(c) A traitor.
(d) A dictator.

7. What does Lessing hope will one day change human behavior?
(a) Awareness.
(b) Learning from our past.
(c) All of these.
(d) Scientific data.

8. Lessing felt that the party ruling Rhodesia was ____________.
(a) Brilliant.
(b) Oppressive.
(c) Admirable.
(d) Progressive.

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

10. During Lessing's time in Rhodesia, how many people were in the political party she briefly joined?
(a) 200.
(b) 5.
(c) 40.
(d) 300.

11. What was the race of the boy the bull killed?
(a) Hispanic.
(b) White.
(c) Asian.
(d) Black.

12. What does the political Left believe in, according to Lessing?
(a) Charity.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Honesty.

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

14. Which leader of the miner's strike was referenced by Lessing?
(a) Jessup Courtenay.
(b) Jake Montgomery.
(c) Herbert Ballino.
(d) Arthur Scargill.

15. According to Lessing, what religion has encouraged Europeans to kill in the name of God?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Agnostics.
(d) Muslim.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Arthasastra about?

2. Lessing encouraged humans to learn from ____________.

3. Who was surprised by what happened to the miner who returned to work during the miner's strike?

4. According to Lessing, what do novelists have the ability to do?

5. Lessing believed that groups act together due to ___________.

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