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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of Lessing's nanny?
(a) Biddy.
(b) Betty.
(c) Betsy.
(d) Beth.

3. 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.

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

5. Which of the following drugs does Lessing admit to having taken once?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Mescalin.
(d) Marijuana.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At what age did Emily McVeagh die?

3. What image from the photograph album does Lessing describe?

4. In Chapter 4, what city did Lessing's mother insist on traveling through on the way back to England?

5. Where did Lessing's family live before they found property?

(see the answer key)

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