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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Fifteen, Sixteen and Seventeen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Lessing learn to drive?
(a) Lessing learned to drive because of her father's awkward leg.
(b) Lessing learned to drive because she wanted independence.
(c) Lessing learned to drive to displease her mother.
(d) Lessing learned to drive because she wanted to work in town.

2. How does Lessing describe the letters that she received from her mother?
(a) Furious.
(b) Docile.
(c) Refreshing.
(d) Frantic.

3. What do Lessing's parents do in preparation for their next voyage?
(a) They studied French.
(b) They had their teeth removed.
(c) They drew up a legal will.
(d) They saved money scrupulously.

4. In what year was Gottfried Lessing born?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1912.

5. What book does Lessing cite in her discussion of the Russian front?
(a) The Real Thing.
(b) All Quiet on the Western Front.
(c) The Forgotten Soldier.
(d) Darkness at Noon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Lessing's books began at that time in her life?

2. To which of the following areas did Lessing travel?

3. How does Lessing describe Frank Cooper's views on the world?

4. What did Doris insist on having with her in the photograph for which she posed?

5. What method of birth control had Lessing been using?

(see the answer key)

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