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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Lessing rebel while aboard the ship?
(a) By staying up late.
(b) By speaking disrespectfully to the nanny.
(c) By sneaking out of the cabin.
(d) By stealing things and lying about them.

2. Why did Lessing begin to eat less during meals?
(a) Lessing wanted to impress a farm assistant.
(b) Lessing's mother told her to try to lose weight.
(c) Because the clothing that would arrive for her was always too small.
(d) Lessing wanted to foil her mother's attempts to feed the family well.

3. Why did Lessing not like the clothes that her mother had made for her?
(a) Because her mother always made her clothes look too youthful.
(b) Because her mother had poor taste in clothing design.
(c) Because her mother always insisted on making clothing that was too big.
(d) Because her mother was a poor seamstress.

4. What method of birth control had Lessing been using?
(a) The Dutch cap.
(b) None.
(c) Birth control pills.
(d) Condoms.

5. What skills did Lessing teach herself during that year?
(a) Speed typing and shorthand.
(b) Cooking and cleaning.
(c) Sewing and darning.
(d) Reading and writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Lessing, where do most of the good biographers live?

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

3. Which of the following drugs does Lessing admit to having taken once?

4. Which of the following killed one of the chickens and took off with a couple of eggs?

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

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