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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many bouts of illness did Lessing's family experience?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

2. After returning to England, where did Lessing's family settle?
(a) In Bloomsbury.
(b) In Southern Rhodesia.
(c) In the East End.
(d) In Persia.

3. How did Lessing's friend make a living in New York to support herself and her daughter?
(a) Acting.
(b) Modeling.
(c) Writing.
(d) Prostitution.

4. What does Lessing say about memory?
(a) Memory is an astonishing record.
(b) Memory is a careless and lazy organ.
(c) Memory cannot be trusted.
(d) Memory must be recorded in books.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In which book did Lessing write about Mr. Whitehead?

2. How many trek oxen hauled the wagon carrying Lessing's family?

3. In Chapter 2, what is one thing that Lessing says the writer must have in order to begin to write about his/her life?

4. Which of the following sparkled in every rock that surrounded the Lessings' home?

5. What kind of food were the children fed at the convent that Lessing stayed in as a child?

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