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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the Minister of Finance?
(a) Gunther Maynard.
(b) Max Danziger.
(c) Arthur Koestler.
(d) Frank Wisdom.

2. Why did Lessing begin to eat less during meals?
(a) Lessing's mother told her to try to lose weight.
(b) Because the clothing that would arrive for her was always too small.
(c) Lessing wanted to foil her mother's attempts to feed the family well.
(d) Lessing wanted to impress a farm assistant.

3. Who was the editor of The New Rhodesia?
(a) Frank Wisdom.
(b) Lessing.
(c) N.H. Wilson.
(d) Gottfried Lessing.

4. Which of the following was NOT a language commonly spoken in the Lessing home?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Russian.
(c) French.
(d) German.

5. Which book on the experience of Communism does Lessing cite in this chapter?
(a) Darkness at Noon.
(b) Stalin's journals.
(c) Das Kapital.
(d) The Communist Manifesto.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, what year did Lessing marry Gottfried Lessing?

2. After returning to England, where did Lessing's family settle?

3. What remained unaffected by the Lessings' existence for 20 years?

4. Where did Lessing first experience a social event in which she and black people were treated equally?

5. Why did Lessing remain on the farm when her father was taken to the hospital in Salisbury?

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