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

2. Which of the following words did Lessing lament to be no longer in use?
(a) Pogrom.
(b) Commonwealth.
(c) Lumpen.
(d) Proletariat.

3. What did Lessing do most afternoons with the new baby?
(a) Lessing would prepare evening meals.
(b) Lessing would walk around with the baby in the pram.
(c) Lessing would visit Gottfried at the office.
(d) Lessing would drive out to see her father.

4. Which company offered loans to the farmers in Lessing's region?
(a) Land Bank.
(b) Southern Rhodesian Farming Association.
(c) The National Bank of Southern Rhodesia.
(d) The British National Bank.

5. Which of the following was NOT one of the things that Lessing and Frank had in common?
(a) Both had read the Communist Manifesto.
(b) Both subscribed to the New Statesman.
(c) Both lived in Persia as children.
(d) Both had seditious thoughts about "The Native Problem".

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, which year does Lessing describe as a "make or break" year in her life?

2. What skills did Lessing teach herself during that year?

3. Which of the following song for children made Lessing's mother cry?

4. How did the daughters of the mothers of the1960's view sex?

5. In Chapter 12, what did Lessing do to calm down John?

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