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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six -Seven.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where was John McVeagh born?
(a) Portugal.
(b) England.
(c) Rhodesia.
(d) Persia.

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

5. To which of the following does Lessing compare writers?
(a) Liars.
(b) Pegs on which to hang ideas.
(c) Ventriloquists, casting a message from afar.
(d) Archaeologists.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the doctor prescribe to alleviate Lessing's mother's ailment?

3. Who stated that children should play in mud?

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

5. What stove brand did Lessing's family use?

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