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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 is convinced that too many people are ____________.

2. What did many of the victims do during the Milgram experiment?

3. What did Lessing see as a positive, in terms of brainwashing?

4. When unprompted confessions took place during the war, what did governments begin to study?

5. According to Lessing, what do humans require?

Short Essay Questions

1. Are all aspects of brainwashing intentional?

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

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

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

5. Why did Lessing publish books under a pseudonym?

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

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

8. What was the Milgram experiment?

9. According to Lessing, why is elitism considered unfashionable?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lessing believed that the word "blood" is a powerful one when it comes to inciting emotion.

1) Why did she find the word "blood" significant?

2) What are some examples she gives to support this theory?

3) What are the implications regarding human nature and violence?

Essay Topic 2

According to Lessing, what is the role of novelists in a society?

Essay Topic 3

Lessing contended that several parts of our culture use brainwashing as a form of communication. Choose from one of the following entities and examine the influence it has or could have on society through brainwashing.

1) Advertising community.

2) Religion.

3) Government.

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