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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With brainwashing techniques, soldiers can be made to feel ________ about killing.
(a) Horror.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Desensitized.
(d) Guilt.

2. Lessing is concerned that too many people are __________ about group psychology.
(a) Lackadaisical.
(b) Doubtful.
(c) Excited..
(d) Squeamish.

3. During the Korean War, who confessed to crimes they did not commit?
(a) American citizens.
(b) American soldiers.
(c) Korean citizens.
(d) Korean soldiers.

4. For how many years have governments and priesthoods used brainwashing techniques?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) Thousands.
(c) Never.
(d) Decades.

5. What did many of the victims do during the Milgram experiment?
(a) Sue.
(b) Scream.
(c) Cry.
(d) Laugh.

6. What would Lessing like schools or governments to teach?
(a) Computer skills.
(b) Counting systems.
(c) Money management.
(d) Human behavior.

7. What pseudonym did Lessing write under?
(a) Jessica Walsh.
(b) Jane Somers.
(c) Jane Doe.
(d) April Smalley.

8. What advertising firm did Margaret Thatcher hire, prior to taking a public position?
(a) Greentree.
(b) Saatchi & Saatchi.
(c) Shafer, Wilson and Paltrow.
(d) Goldberg and Lessing.

9. What country did the Shah rule?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Africa.
(c) Persia.
(d) Ghana.

10. How many books did Lessing write under a pseudonym?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) One.

11. What attitude did Lessing strive for, when it came to tragedy?
(a) Pity.
(b) Wild emotion.
(c) Dispassion.
(d) Rage.

12. At a popular university, a researcher had the ability to control a subject by __________.
(a) Playing music.
(b) Food rationing.
(c) Limiting exercise.
(d) Brainwashing.

13. What did Margaret Thatcher hire an advertising company to manage?
(a) Her election.
(b) Her husband's career.
(c) The meat industry.
(d) The fashion industry.

14. In an experiment referenced by Lessing, groups fought individuals about the length of _____________.
(a) Boards.
(b) A race.
(c) Time.
(d) Spaghetti.

15. Experiments in mental hospitals have shown sane people mistaken for _______________.
(a) Corporate staff.
(b) Medical staff.
(c) Dangerous criminals.
(d) Insane people.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What members of the public eye, according to Lessing, often repeat words and phrases to breed familiarity?

4. Lessing is convinced that too many people are ____________.

5. What surprised people who took part in the Milgram experiment?

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