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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Cats and flowers.
(b) Singing and prancing.
(c) Books and studying.
(d) Horses and dancing.

2. Which of the following does Lessing state as signifying the end of any war?
(a) Military defeat.
(b) Total victory.
(c) Armistice.
(d) Negotiations.

3. 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.

4. How did Lessing's mother convey her distaste for Emily McVeagh?
(a) A sniff.
(b) A constant undercurrent in her descriptions of Emily.
(c) A story about her frivolous ways.
(d) A look of disdain in her eyes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of food were the children fed at the convent that Lessing stayed in as a child?

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

3. At what age did Emily McVeagh die?

4. How did Lessing's friend make a living in New York to support herself and her daughter?

5. To which of the following illnesses did Lessing's brother often succumb?

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