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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was Doris Lessing born?
(a) Glasgow, Scotland.
(b) London, England.
(c) Kermanshah, Persia.
(d) Southern Rhodesia.

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 are dropped from memory, then history.
(d) Women become more significant to a culture's public culture.

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

5. How did the author feel about her childhood?
(a) Lessing felt as though her parents had neglected her.
(b) Lessing felt as though the entire world was changing while she was a child.
(c) Lessing felt as though her childhood had been very sheltered.
(d) Lessing felt as though there had been a grey cloud over her childhood.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How many family members went to visit Lessing's house in Persia?

4. Which of the following historic examples does Lessing use to support her claims about human nature?

5. Where was John McVeagh born?

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