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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Lessing experiment with drugs?
(a) 1970's.
(b) 1960's.
(c) 1940's.
(d) 1950's.

3. Why did Lessing's father miss the Battle of the Somme?
(a) A case of depression.
(b) A bad appendix.
(c) An amputated leg.
(d) A dishonorable discharge.

4. What does Lessing say about memory?
(a) Memory must be recorded in books.
(b) Memory is an astonishing record.
(c) Memory cannot be trusted.
(d) Memory is a careless and lazy organ.

5. Which of the following does Lessing blame for the distrust that 20th Century people have in their governments?
(a) World War I.
(b) Media coverage.
(c) World War II.
(d) Political corruption.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was John McVeagh born?

2. Where did Lessing's father work after he was discharged from the Army?

3. Which of the following conditions ailed the author's father?

4. According to Lessing, what happens to women as time passes?

5. How many biographers were writing about Lessing at the time that she wrote the book?

(see the answer key)

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