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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many bouts of illness did Lessing's family experience?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

2. Which of the following organizations asked Lessing to write a play in the 1950's?
(a) The Shakespeare Theater Company.
(b) The Liverpool Theater Company.
(c) The Royal Theater Company.
(d) The BBC.

3. In Chapter 8, what does Lessing reference as a common theme throughout her childhood?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Trees.
(c) Adventures.
(d) Fires.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Lessing delight in telling the other children at the school?

2. What type of play did Lessing write while at the Convent?

3. What social development occurred during Lessing's stay at the Convent which, much to the chagrin of the nuns, parents supported?

4. What image from the photograph album does Lessing describe?

5. When did Lessing experiment with drugs?

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