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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which activity did Lessing both love and hate?
(a) Knitting.
(b) Nursing John.
(c) Walking John in the pram.
(d) Tea parties.

2. Growing up, what was Lessing always told about the family's financial status?
(a) That the family was middle-class.
(b) That the family would be fine when her father settled in his new job.
(c) That the family was poor.
(d) That the family was financially stable, but morally corrupt.

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

4. How did the author feel about her childhood?
(a) Lessing felt as though there had been a grey cloud over her childhood.
(b) Lessing felt as though the entire world was changing while she was a child.
(c) Lessing felt as though her childhood had been very sheltered.
(d) Lessing felt as though her parents had neglected her.

5. What does Lessing mention as the one thing that would have stopped her from marrying Frank?
(a) Her mother's opposition to the marriage.
(b) Her father's support.
(c) Her mother's support.
(d) Her father's admonition against making that mistake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following sparkled in every rock that surrounded the Lessings' home?

2. In Chapter 10, which of the following countries was Lessing thinking about as she stood at the edge of the tobacco field?

3. How does Lessing describe the letters that she received from her mother?

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

5. According to Lessing, what happens to women as time passes?

(see the answer key)

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