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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 surprised people who took part in the Milgram experiment?
(a) Their need to escape.
(b) Their response to authority.
(c) Their interest in psychology.
(d) Their need for family support.

2. Lessing believed that people are governed by ___________.
(a) Money.
(b) Power.
(c) Mass emotion.
(d) Mass greed.

3. Through understanding brainwashing, Lessing hoped that people could let go of ___________.
(a) Hatred.
(b) Self-delusion.
(c) Blame.
(d) Goal setting trends.

4. What does every country perpetuate to some extent, according to Lessing?
(a) Brainwashing.
(b) False modesty.
(c) Celebration.
(d) Nostalgia.

5. What type of laws rule social groups?
(a) None of these.
(b) Government.
(c) Social.
(d) Public.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Lessing, governments use brain washing for what purpose?

3. What country did the Shah rule?

4. Lessing felt that what type of response should be the only response to wild emotionalism?

5. What type of exposure leads the public to feel less for terrible disasters?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Milgram experiment?

2. What is the price an individual might pay if he resists the group mentality?

3. Why do people often conform to groups?

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

5. What relationship does communism have with the individual?

6. What was the literary community's reaction to Lessing's pseudonym experiment?

7. Why did Lessing publish books under a pseudonym?

8. Why was Lessing opposed to mass emotion?

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

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

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