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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many adults lived in the Persian house while Lessing was growing up?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

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

3. What year did Lessing leave Southern Rhodesia?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1949.

4. According to Lessing, where do most of the good biographers live?
(a) Britain.
(b) United States of America.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

5. At what age did Emily McVeagh die?
(a) 23.
(b) 35.
(c) 42.
(d) 32.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Lessing's father think of his Persian business partners?

3. According to Lessing, above all, what does history tell us?

4. Which of the following drugs does Lessing admit to having taken once?

5. According to Lessing, what is the most intense form of hatred?

(see the answer key)

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