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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Twenty and Twenty-One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Lessing's friend make a living in New York to support herself and her daughter?
(a) Writing.
(b) Prostitution.
(c) Acting.
(d) Modeling.

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

3. What kind of dress was Lessing wearing in the scene that she describes?
(a) Grey silk.
(b) Red velvet.
(c) Green satin.
(d) Black velvet.

4. Which of the following did Lessing delight in telling the other children at the school?
(a) That being naughty was more fun than behaving.
(b) That a lie was worse than being naughty.
(c) That being naughty was much worse than lying.
(d) That lying would make their face stick in a horrible position.

5. What development in young John's life took very little effort from Lessing?
(a) Speaking.
(b) Crawling.
(c) Walking
(d) Toilet training.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Gottfried Lessing arrive in Southern Rhodesia?

2. Where did Lessing live following her divorce from Gottfried?

3. What time of day would Gottfried get up to go to the tobacco auctions?

4. In Chapter 20, which of the following people was NOT still a member of the Communist Party?

5. What type of culture existed in Southern Rhodesia?

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