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

2. Who was the editor of The New Rhodesia?
(a) N.H. Wilson.
(b) Gottfried Lessing.
(c) Lessing.
(d) Frank Wisdom.

3. Where did Lessing first experience a social event in which she and black people were treated equally?
(a) Old Umtali.
(b) London.
(c) Capetown.
(d) Johannesburg.

4. To which book did Lessing often compare her childhood?
(a) The Jungle Book.
(b) The Little Princess.
(c) Toe-Rags.
(d) Pride and Prejudice.

5. According to Lessing, above all, what does history tell us?
(a) That happiness is fleeting.
(b) That mankind is not peaceful by nature.
(c) That circumstances dictate the person.
(d) That nothing is permanent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What anti-Soviet book did Lessing began circulating?

2. According to Lessing, what is the most intense form of hatred?

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

4. What did Biddy O'Halloran's skin resemble?

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

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