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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event in Lessing's childhood does she describe as having left her inconsolable?
(a) The first day of school.
(b) The death of her cat.
(c) The move to Africa.
(d) The beginning of war.

2. Which of the following phenomenons did Frank and Lessing consistently criticize?
(a) Classism.
(b) English customs celebrated in Rhodesia.
(c) White superiority.
(d) Pretensions about education.

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

4. What historical event happened just before the birth of Lessing's daughter?
(a) The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(b) The Atlantic Charter.
(c) The outbreak of WWII.
(d) The detente.

5. What did Lessing refuse to have on her bed at night?
(a) A quilt.
(b) A mosquito net.
(c) A blanket.
(d) A kaross.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Gottfried Lessing arrive in Southern Rhodesia?

2. Which of the following organizations asked Lessing to write a play in the 1950's?

3. How many biographers were writing about Lessing at the time that she wrote the book?

4. What was the difference between African huts and English huts?

5. What did the Portuguese woman give to Lessing?

(see the answer key)

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