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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 4, what city did Lessing's mother insist on traveling through on the way back to England?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Brussels.
(d) Moscow.

3. What did Biddy O'Halloran's skin resemble?
(a) Olives.
(b) Red jelly and cream.
(c) Peaches and cream.
(d) Bronze.

4. Where did Lessing's family live before they found property?
(a) In Lilfordia.
(b) In London.
(c) In Kent.
(d) In Johannesburg.

5. According to Lessing, why do authors write so many biographies?
(a) Biographies sell well.
(b) Biographies are based on fact.
(c) Novels require more of the author's soul.
(d) Biographies are simpler to write than fiction.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following illnesses did Lessing's family battle?

4. How many bouts of illness did Lessing's family experience?

5. How long before this book was written did Europeans arrive in Southern Rhodesia?

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