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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through You Are Damned, We Are Saved.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a whole, Lessing considered writers to be ______________.
(a) A wasted profession.
(b) A plague.
(c) A bad influence.
(d) An organism.

2. The tree was cut down for its association with _____________.
(a) Religion.
(b) A foreign Colonel.
(c) A traitor.
(d) A dictator.

3. What nationality was Friedrich Hebbel?
(a) Austrian.
(b) British.
(c) Spanish.
(d) American.

4. According to Lessing, what do novelists have the ability to do?
(a) Dumb down society.
(b) Slander whoever they want.
(c) Make money in the arts.
(d) Reflect human behavior.

5. What did Lessing reference as a method groups use to encourage others not to think?
(a) Book burning.
(b) Catch phrases.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Censorship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprised Lessing regarding human behavior over time?

2. Lessing believed history was a great __________.

3. What did people think of the farmer's decision to punish the bull?

4. When the bull keeper was killed, who asked for compensation?

5. What was Lessing's concern regarding the application of science on human behavior?

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