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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Laboratories of Social Change.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Experiments in prisons show that ordinary people _________________.
(a) Try to escape.
(b) Tell on the inmates.
(c) Adjust well to incarceration.
(d) Adopt prison behaviors.

2. What was the result of the miner's strike?
(a) Mine explosions.
(b) Positive publicity.
(c) Rioting.
(d) Book burning.

3. What did Lessing believe about those living in democratic societies?
(a) They are not truly free.
(b) They have too much money.
(c) They are selfish.
(d) They are individuals.

4. What happened to the man who named his cat "King of Kings"?
(a) He was mocked.
(b) He was lauded.
(c) He was imprisoned.
(d) He was invited to a State dinner.

5. What was Lessing's attitude toward bigotry?
(a) She accepted it.
(b) She was against it.
(c) She perpetuated it.
(d) None of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. Experiments in mental hospitals have shown sane people mistaken for _______________.

2. During experiments, individuals have been shown to __________.

3. According to Lessing, what religion has encouraged Europeans to kill in the name of God?

4. What position did Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. hold?

5. Lessing believed that people are governed by ___________.

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