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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. How might it benefit a leader to be unaware if his regime is treating the people poorly?
(a) He can claim innocence.
(b) He can rule in blissful ignorance.
(c) He is not forced to act.
(d) All of these.

2. According to Lessing, what are power structures across the globe putting into practice?
(a) Technological advancements.
(b) Training for the individual.
(c) Taxation without representation.
(d) Group psychology.

3. Lessing is concerned that too many people are __________ about group psychology.
(a) Squeamish.
(b) Excited..
(c) Doubtful.
(d) Lackadaisical.

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

5. What have governments in the past done to determine if government workers were behaving well?
(a) Spied on them.
(b) Asked around.
(c) Quizzed them.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lessing considered the time period of World War II to be ___________.

2. What are two entities which perpetuate brainwashing?

3. What did Lessing believe about those living in democratic societies?

4. Lessing is convinced that too many people are ____________.

5. According to Lessing, what type of absolutes do group minds often express?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Milgram experiment?

2. Why would a government or sect of any sort want to control its subjects through brainwashing?

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

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

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

8. Why do people often conform to groups?

9. Why was Lessing opposed to mass emotion?

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

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