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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. What did Lessing propose that our government should do?

2. Lessing refers to examples such as the acceptance of Jean Rhys' work as what type of mentality?

3. In what countries did Lessing see bloody revolutions?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What relationship does communism have with the individual?

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

4. What was the Milgram experiment?

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

6. Who is Jean Rhys? Why did all of her work become popular?

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

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

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

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

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

When examining the miner's strike, Lessing noted that onlookers knew both sides of the debate were lying about the issues, yet people took sides in spite of the lack of accurate information.

1) What type of information should people use to come to conclusions?

2) What type of information do people typically use to come to conclusions?

3) What does Lessing say about the tendency of people to come to conclusions in spite of a lack of information?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the role of the individual in society, citing examples from the text to support your theory.

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