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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. How might it benefit a leader to be unaware if his regime is treating the people poorly?
(a) He can rule in blissful ignorance.
(b) He can claim innocence.
(c) All of these.
(d) He is not forced to act.

2. What was the race of the boy the bull killed?
(a) Black.
(b) Hispanic.
(c) White.
(d) Asian.

3. Lessing believed the human race to be in _________.
(a) "Purgatory."
(b) "An expected state."
(c) "A terrible mess."
(d) "An inspirational transformation."

4. What does Lessing hope will one day change human behavior?
(a) All of these.
(b) Learning from our past.
(c) Scientific data.
(d) Awareness.

5. What position did Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. hold?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Maintenance worker.
(c) Mayor.
(d) Jurist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Through understanding brainwashing, Lessing hoped that people could let go of ___________.

2. Where did Lessing grow up?

3. What did Lessing think about the ideals held by the political group she briefly joined?

4. Where did the miner's strike referenced by Lessing take place?

5. According to Lessing, what word gets people excited to fight?

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