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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through When in the Future They Look Back on Us.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the origin of the farmer who owned the bull?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Scottish.
(c) Australian.
(d) British.

2. Lessing believed people could grow if they only detached from ___________.
(a) Mass emotion.
(b) Lessons from the past.
(c) The idea of love.
(d) Their family.

3. What does Lessing believe that humans know?
(a) The power of leadership.
(b) More than they did in the past.
(c) Killing is wrong.
(d) They will never change.

4. Who wrote the Arthasastra?
(a) Rudyard Kipling.
(b) The Apostle Paul.
(c) Chaucer.
(d) Kautilya.

5. The Arthasastra mentions that it is only ________ in a line of books.
(a) The most memorable.
(b) One of many.
(c) The most important.
(d) A holy respite.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the race of the boy the bull killed?

2. What surprised Lessing regarding human behavior over time?

3. According to Lessing, war causes humans to ____________.

4. During a riot in Brussels, what shocking act did humans perform on corpses?

5. What nationality was Friedrich Hebbel?

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