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

2. Who did Lessing work for at this point in her life?
(a) Mr. Smith.
(b) Mr. Lamb.
(c) Mr. Danziger.
(d) Mr. Wisdom.

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

4. In Chapter 11, where did Lessing work?
(a) Lessing worked as an au pair for the Smith family.
(b) Lessing worked part-time at several lawyers' firms.
(c) Lessing transcribed notes for a local newspaper.
(d) Lessing worked at the Telephone Exchange.

5. What did all the women assume about Lessing's marriage to Frank?
(a) That they fought constantly.
(b) That they had married too soon.
(c) That their sex life was a failure.
(d) That they did not love each other.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who vouched for Gottfried Lessing to get him out of jail?

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

4. What was the black population of Salisbury?

5. Where was Doris Lessing born?

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