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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What was once another name for Iran?

5. According to Lessing, governments become dangerous without ___________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the Milgram experiment?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What type of wars did Lessing live through?

9. Why was Lessing opposed to mass emotion?

10. Why do people often conform to groups?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Support or refute the following statement, citing examples from the text, "The mob mentality has dominated individual thought throughout history."

Essay Topic 2

Brainwashing is an unpleasant idea for those who believe they are susceptible.

1) According to Lessing, who feels susceptible to brainwashing?

2) What is the process of brainwashing?

3) Who is susceptible to brainwashing?

Essay Topic 3

Mass insanity is a concept Lessing used to describe the tendency of people to accept ideas based on nothing found in reality. What did she mean by this?

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