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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Lessing, above all, what does history tell us?
(a) That mankind is not peaceful by nature.
(b) That nothing is permanent.
(c) That circumstances dictate the person.
(d) That happiness is fleeting.

2. What did Doris insist on having with her in the photograph for which she posed?
(a) A book.
(b) Her teddy bear.
(c) A flower that she picked herself.
(d) Her cat.

3. What did Lessing's parents think of the Whiteheads when they first met them?
(a) That they would be useful in developing relationships.
(b) That they should return to England.
(c) That they were shifty and unsatisfactory.
(d) That they could betray them at any time.

4. How was Aunt Betty Cleverly like most women of her generation?
(a) Aunt Betty had decided not to marry.
(b) Aunt Betty was committed to Victorian values.
(c) Aunt Betty was unhappily married.
(d) Aunt Betty's lover was killed in the War.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To which of the following does Lessing compare writers?

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

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

4. What year did Lessing leave Southern Rhodesia?

5. How many acres of land did James Tayler own in 1851?

(see the answer key)

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