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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What image from the photograph album does Lessing describe?
(a) A trip to the market.
(b) Her first day in the Persian house.
(c) A visit to a swimming bath.
(d) A visit to her father's workplace.

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

3. According to Lessing, what happens to women as time passes?
(a) Women assert themselves as powerful people.
(b) Women are dropped from memory, then history.
(c) Women become more significant to a culture's public culture.
(d) Women fade into the domestic sphere.

4. What remained unaffected by the Lessings' existence for 20 years?
(a) The natives.
(b) The trees.
(c) The bush.
(d) The wildcats.

5. Which of the following sparkled in every rock that surrounded the Lessings' home?
(a) Gold.
(b) Diamonds.
(c) Pyrite.
(d) Quartz.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Aunt Betty Cleverly like most women of her generation?

2. Why did Lessing's father miss the Battle of the Somme?

3. According to the quote at the opening of Chapter 1, the girl in Lessing's mother's favorite saying only cared about which of the following?

4. How many adults lived in the Persian house while Lessing was growing up?

5. How long before this book was written did Europeans arrive in Southern Rhodesia?

(see the answer key)

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