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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) Marrying members of the group.
(c) Making friends with others.
(d) Believing in God.

2. With brainwashing techniques, soldiers can be made to feel ________ about killing.
(a) Guilt.
(b) Desensitized.
(c) Horror.
(d) Excitement.

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

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

5. What was Jean Rhys' occupation?
(a) Singer.
(b) Writer.
(c) Actor.
(d) Painter.

6. In Russia and Czechoslovakia, people confessed to ridiculous crimes during __________.
(a) The Interest Investigation.
(b) The Scholar Trials.
(c) The No Trials.
(d) The Show Trials.

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

8. According to researchers, those who resist indoctrination the most are the ones very capable in what area?
(a) Sanity.
(b) Negativity.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Humor.

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

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

11. What percentage of the world has a strong tendency towards leadership, according to experts?
(a) 90%
(b) 10%
(c) 40%.
(d) 25%.

12. According to Lessing, governments become dangerous without ___________.
(a) Religion.
(b) Popular support.
(c) Checks and balances.
(d) Money.

13. In what countries did Lessing see bloody revolutions?
(a) Russia and China.
(b) Germany and Spain.
(c) The United States and Canada.
(d) England and France.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What have governments in the past done to determine if government workers were behaving well?

2. What type of laws rule social groups?

3. What members of the public eye, according to Lessing, often repeat words and phrases to breed familiarity?

4. Lessing refers to examples such as the acceptance of Jean Rhys' work as what type of mentality?

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

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