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

2. What made Jean Rhys popular?
(a) Charity work.
(b) A successful book.
(c) A public affair.
(d) A stint in office.

3. During experiments, individuals have been shown to __________.
(a) Give into the group.
(b) Think individually.
(c) Cry out for companionship.
(d) Panic.

4. What was Margaret Thatcher's title?
(a) British Prime Minister.
(b) President of the United States.
(c) Princess of Arabia.
(d) First Lady of Russia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two entities which perpetuate brainwashing?

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

3. According to researchers, those who resist indoctrination the most are the ones very capable in what area?

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

5. At a popular university, a researcher had the ability to control a subject by __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What relationship does communism have with the individual?

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

3. What is the value of brainwashing to a government?

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

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

6. Why do most people believe they are not susceptible to brainwashing?

7. What types of organizations have studied or used brainwashing?

8. Why was Lessing opposed to mass emotion?

9. Why would Margaret Thatcher use an advertising agency as a method to get elected?

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

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