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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Lessing, where do most of the good biographers live?
(a) United States of America.
(b) France.
(c) Britain.
(d) Germany.

2. Where was Doris Lessing born?
(a) Glasgow, Scotland.
(b) Southern Rhodesia.
(c) Kermanshah, Persia.
(d) London, England.

3. What did Lessing's father think of his Persian business partners?
(a) That they were lazy.
(b) That they were corrupt.
(c) That they were incompetent.
(d) That they were members of a different culture.

4. Which of the following historic examples does Lessing use to support her claims about human nature?
(a) The Reformation.
(b) The Renaissance.
(c) The Crusades.
(d) The Holocaust.

5. According to Lessing, what happens to women as time passes?
(a) Women become more significant to a culture's public culture.
(b) Women assert themselves as powerful people.
(c) Women are dropped from memory, then history.
(d) Women fade into the domestic sphere.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Lessing's friend make a living in New York to support herself and her daughter?

2. Why did Lessing's father miss the Battle of the Somme?

3. Where was John McVeagh born?

4. Which of the following does Lessing state as signifying the end of any war?

5. What year did Lessing leave Southern Rhodesia?

(see the answer key)

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