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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Growing up, what was Lessing always told about the family's financial status?
(a) That the family was financially stable, but morally corrupt.
(b) That the family would be fine when her father settled in his new job.
(c) That the family was middle-class.
(d) That the family was poor.

2. How did Mrs. Mitchell and her son treat their Black servants?
(a) Mrs. Mitchell and her son completely ignored their Black servants.
(b) Mrs. Mitchell and her son treated their black servants like slaves.
(c) Mrs. Mitchell and her son screamed at and berated their Black servants.
(d) Mrs. Mitchell and her son treated their Black servants just like family.

3. Where did Frank and Lessing go on their honeymoon?
(a) London.
(b) Beira.
(c) Capetown.
(d) Umtali.

4. What type of play did Lessing write while at the Convent?
(a) An Aristophanean comedy.
(b) A one-act Shakespearean play.
(c) An English tragedy.
(d) A Ciceronian tragedy.

5. To which of the following religions did Lessing suddenly convert?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Roman Catholicism.
(c) Anglicanism.
(d) Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 11, where did Lessing work?

3. What did Lessing's father assume when she and Frank showed up at the family farm?

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

5. Which of the following killed one of the chickens and took off with a couple of eggs?

(see the answer key)

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