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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Fifteen, Sixteen and Seventeen.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following did Lessing delight in telling the other children at the school?
(a) That being naughty was much worse than lying.
(b) That lying would make their face stick in a horrible position.
(c) That a lie was worse than being naughty.
(d) That being naughty was more fun than behaving.

3. In Chapter 9, which year does Lessing describe as a "make or break" year in her life?
(a) Her 12th year.
(b) Her 17th year.
(c) Her 14th year.
(d) Her 16th year.

4. What development in young John's life took very little effort from Lessing?
(a) Walking
(b) Crawling.
(c) Toilet training.
(d) Speaking.

5. How many biographers were writing about Lessing at the time that she wrote the book?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Eight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was NOT a language commonly spoken in the Lessing home?

2. How does Lessing describe Frank Cooper's views on the world?

3. Why did Lessing not like the clothes that her mother had made for her?

4. How did Lessing's mother cure Lessing's lice problem?

5. What time of day would Gottfried get up to go to the tobacco auctions?

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