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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long before this book was written did Europeans arrive in Southern Rhodesia?
(a) 103 years.
(b) 54 years.
(c) 23 years.
(d) 34 years.

2. 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.

3. What do Lessing's parents do in preparation for their next voyage?
(a) They studied French.
(b) They saved money scrupulously.
(c) They had their teeth removed.
(d) They drew up a legal will.

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

5. Why did Lessing learn to drive?
(a) Lessing learned to drive because of her father's awkward leg.
(b) Lessing learned to drive to displease her mother.
(c) Lessing learned to drive because she wanted to work in town.
(d) Lessing learned to drive because she wanted independence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of play did Lessing write while at the Convent?

2. What was the name of Lessing's nanny?

3. What does Lessing mention as the one thing that would have stopped her from marrying Frank?

4. What did the doctor prescribe to alleviate Lessing's mother's ailment?

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

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