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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Lessing's opinion, elitism is _____________.
(a) Unfashionable.
(b) Intelligent.
(c) All of these.
(d) Snobby.

2. Lessing felt that what type of response should be the only response to wild emotionalism?
(a) Wilder emotionalism.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Tears.
(d) Detachment.

3. At a popular university, a researcher had the ability to control a subject by __________.
(a) Limiting exercise.
(b) Food rationing.
(c) Brainwashing.
(d) Playing music.

4. In the United States, people confessed to ridiculous crimes during _____________.
(a) The witch hunts.
(b) The winter.
(c) The elections.
(d) The rule of Abe Lincoln.

5. For how many years have governments and priesthoods used brainwashing techniques?
(a) Never.
(b) Thousands.
(c) Decades.
(d) Hundreds.

6. In what country was the Gettysburg Address made?
(a) Cuba.
(b) The United States.
(c) France.
(d) England.

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

8. What did Margaret Thatcher hire an advertising company to manage?
(a) The fashion industry.
(b) Her husband's career.
(c) Her election.
(d) The meat industry.

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

10. What does every country perpetuate to some extent, according to Lessing?
(a) Brainwashing.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) Celebration.
(d) False modesty.

11. After the prison experiment, what did the subjects feel?
(a) Disappointment.
(b) Fear.
(c) Surprise.
(d) Forgiveness.

12. What pseudonym did Lessing write under?
(a) Jessica Walsh.
(b) Jane Somers.
(c) April Smalley.
(d) Jane Doe.

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

14. Lessing is convinced that too many people are ____________.
(a) Blindly loyal.
(b) Completely transparent.
(c) Somewhat Misunderstood.
(d) Totally untrustworthy.

15. According to Lessing, what are power structures across the globe putting into practice?
(a) Technological advancements.
(b) Taxation without representation.
(c) Training for the individual.
(d) Group psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Lessing, governments become dangerous without ___________.

2. Through understanding brainwashing, Lessing hoped that people could let go of ___________.

3. Experiments in mental hospitals have shown sane people mistaken for _______________.

4. What advertising firm did Margaret Thatcher hire, prior to taking a public position?

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

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