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

2. According to Lessing, what do humans require?
(a) Companionship.
(b) Free thinking.
(c) Faith.
(d) Lots of money.

3. Regarding the actions of their underlings, Lessing believed that leaders often knew _____________.
(a) Little of what is happening.
(b) Only negative actions.
(c) Only positive actions.
(d) Everything.

4. Concerning conformity, Lessing believed that __________had the most influence on an individual.
(a) Parents.
(b) The self.
(c) Friends.
(d) Political parties.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. During the Korean War, who confessed to crimes they did not commit?

5. Lessing believed that any sane person is susceptible to __________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Lessing believe that insane people are the only ones safe against brainwashing?

3. Why do most people not want to hear about brainwashing?

4. Are all aspects of brainwashing intentional?

5. Lessing stated that people in democratic societies are often fooling themselves on their level of freedom. Why?

6. What type of wars did Lessing live through?

7. Why did Lessing publish books under a pseudonym?

8. What was the Milgram experiment?

9. When it comes to commentators and critics, what breeds an air of familiarity with viewers?

10. Why do people fall victim to "inner censorship"?

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