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

2. What anti-Soviet book did Lessing began circulating?
(a) Cold Warrior.
(b) The Grass is Singing.
(c) Darkness at Noon.
(d) I Chose Freedom.

3. Which of the following historic examples does Lessing use to support her claims about human nature?
(a) The Reformation.
(b) The Renaissance.
(c) The Crusades.
(d) The Holocaust.

4. Who recommended that Lessing see a particular doctor for an abortion?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Frank's sister.
(c) Mabel Griffiths.
(d) Ivy.

5. According to Lessing, what happens to women as time passes?
(a) Women assert themselves as powerful people.
(b) Women are dropped from memory, then history.
(c) Women become more significant to a culture's public culture.
(d) Women fade into the domestic sphere.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word did Kurt ask Esther not to use?

2. When did Lessing and Frank decide to have another child?

3. What was the highest ambition of Black workers in Salisbury?

4. What was the name of the building in which Lessing and Gottfried rented their flat?

5. Why would Gottfried and Lessing often drive into the suburbs?

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