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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. What would Lessing like schools or governments to teach?
(a) Computer skills.
(b) Human behavior.
(c) Counting systems.
(d) Money management.

2. Why is it important for a leader to know what those below him are doing?
(a) To maintain power.
(b) All of these.
(c) Their actions represent him.
(d) To protect citizens.

3. Lessing refers to examples such as the acceptance of Jean Rhys' work as what type of mentality?
(a) "Rule the world."
(b) "Conformity."
(c) "Follow-the-leader."
(d) "Popular perception."

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

5. What was once another name for Iran?
(a) Jeslon.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Bulersia.
(d) Persia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Experiments in prisons show that ordinary people _________________.

3. What are some of the steps in brainwashing?

4. Concerning conformity, Lessing believed that __________had the most influence on an individual.

5. What did Lessing propose that our government should do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Are all aspects of brainwashing intentional?

2. What relationship does communism have with the individual?

3. Who is Jean Rhys? Why did all of her work become popular?

4. During the Korean War, why were American soldiers confessing to crimes they had nothing to do with?

5. What type of ideas can be put into a subject's mind during the brainwashing process?

6. When confronted with a group opinion, why is it often difficult to maintain an opposing, individual opinion?

7. What was the Milgram experiment?

8. Why was Lessing opposed to mass emotion?

9. According to Lessing, why is elitism considered unfashionable?

10. Why did Lessing publish books under a pseudonym?

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