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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the group mind often discourage, according to Lessing?
(a) Debate about group ideas.
(b) Believing in God.
(c) Making friends with others.
(d) Marrying members of the group.

2. Why did society accept work from Jean Rhys that had previously been rejected?
(a) They decided she was acceptable.
(b) They were paid off.
(c) To rebel.
(d) To create scandal.

3. What are some of the steps in brainwashing?
(a) The use of slogans.
(b) All of these.
(c) Tension followed by relaxation.
(d) Repetition.

4. What are two entities which perpetuate brainwashing?
(a) Hollywood and religion.
(b) Government and the food industry.
(c) Religion and farmers.
(d) Advertising and government.

5. What surprised people who took part in the Milgram experiment?
(a) Their response to authority.
(b) Their need for family support.
(c) Their interest in psychology.
(d) Their need to escape.

6. Lessing considered the time period of World War II to be ___________.
(a) Enlightening.
(b) Delightful.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Insane.

7. What advertising firm did Margaret Thatcher hire, prior to taking a public position?
(a) Saatchi & Saatchi.
(b) Goldberg and Lessing.
(c) Greentree.
(d) Shafer, Wilson and Paltrow.

8. Margaret Thatcher hoped the advertising agency would bring up what type of emotions in people?
(a) Anger.
(b) Easy.
(c) Sad.
(d) Hope.

9. During the Korean War, who confessed to crimes they did not commit?
(a) American citizens.
(b) Korean soldiers.
(c) Korean citizens.
(d) American soldiers.

10. During the Milgram experiment, people were instructed to give other people _____________.
(a) A black eye.
(b) Pink slips.
(c) Electric shocks.
(d) A kiss.

11. Lessing believed that anyone studying sects was susceptible to ______________.
(a) Not taking the study seriously.
(b) Accusing innocent people.
(c) Believing their doctrine.
(d) Going crazy.

12. How might it benefit a leader to be unaware if his regime is treating the people poorly?
(a) All of these.
(b) He is not forced to act.
(c) He can claim innocence.
(d) He can rule in blissful ignorance.

13. What, according to Lessing, is the biggest problem people in democratic societies face?
(a) Conformity.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Lack of money.
(d) Lack of food.

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

15. What did many of the victims do during the Milgram experiment?
(a) Laugh.
(b) Sue.
(c) Scream.
(d) Cry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who turned down Lessing's first book written under a pseudonym?

2. With brainwashing techniques, soldiers can be made to feel ________ about killing.

3. Lessing is concerned that too many people are __________ about group psychology.

4. During the Milgram experiment, what did most of the subjects do?

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

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