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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Arthasastra mentions that it is only ________ in a line of books.
(a) One of many.
(b) The most memorable.
(c) A holy respite.
(d) The most important.

3. Lessing believes the reaction of both Christians and Leftists to opposition is a form of ___________.
(a) Public relations.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Intellectual superiority.
(d) Lunacy.

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

5. What was Rhodesia ruled by?
(a) A black minority.
(b) A white majority.
(c) A white minority.
(d) A black majority.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what time period did Lessing grow up?

2. According to Lessing, what do Christians believe in?

3. Lessing reports that both Christians and Leftists tend to do what to their opposition?

4. Lessing believed people could grow if they only detached from ___________.

5. Lessing believed that a belief pattern of "you-are-damned, I-am-saved" in society is ________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is remarkable about the fact that the blacks were treated as second class citizens in Rhodesia?

2. What is Lessing's prediction concerning what every viewpoint will become with time?

3. What service did Lessing feel that novelists brought to the world?

4. Why did Lessing believe the tendency to buy into vilification was a form of popular lunacy?

5. Why was Lessing discouraged by the application of behavioral data uncovered through the "soft sciences"?

6. Lessing believed that if humans could learn from our history, we could change our future in what respect?

7. Why does Lessing consider the age of Arthastra to be significant?

8. According to Lessing, how is the group mentality different from individual mentality?

9. What comments did Lessing make about the length of time the white ruling class was in power in Rhodesia?

10. In terms of collective beliefs during her life time, what idiocy struck Lessing?

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