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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 10, which of the following countries was Lessing thinking about as she stood at the edge of the tobacco field?
(a) England.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Spain.

2. What did Lessing notice about the workers at the Guardian?
(a) Lessing noticed that whites worked alongside "Indians and Coloured people".
(b) Lessing noticed that very few people ran the operation.
(c) Lessing noticed that there were many women working in important positions.
(d) Lessing noticed that all classes of people were employed there.

3. How does Lessing describe the letters that she received from her mother?
(a) Refreshing.
(b) Docile.
(c) Furious.
(d) Frantic.

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

5. Where did Lessing and Gottfried go with friends?
(a) Tunisia.
(b) Egypt.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Zimbabwe.

6. Why did Lessing remain on the farm when her father was taken to the hospital in Salisbury?
(a) Lessing's brother, Harry needed to be watched.
(b) Lessing had fought with her mother earlier that day.
(c) There was an incubator of eggs that were waiting to hatch.
(d) Lessing did not want to accompany her parents.

7. What does Lessing mention as the one thing that would have stopped her from marrying Frank?
(a) Her father's support.
(b) Her father's admonition against making that mistake.
(c) Her mother's support.
(d) Her mother's opposition to the marriage.

8. In Chapter 15, whom did Lessing find drinking wine with Gottfried?
(a) Simon Pines.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Dorothy Schwartz.
(d) Frank Wisdom.

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

10. What word did Kurt ask Esther not to use?
(a) Superior.
(b) Blood.
(c) Communism.
(d) Fatherland.

11. In Chapter 14, what year did Lessing marry Gottfried Lessing?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1943.

12. Why was it especially dangerous for Gottfried to carry on an affair?
(a) Because he was an enemy alien.
(b) Because he was a married man.
(c) Because he was a career criminal.
(d) Because he was a high-ranking official.

13. In Chapter 9, which year does Lessing describe as a "make or break" year in her life?
(a) Her 17th year.
(b) Her 16th year.
(c) Her 12th year.
(d) Her 14th year.

14. When did Lessing and Frank decide to have another child?
(a) When John was 4 years old.
(b) When John was 2 years old.
(c) When John was 9 years old.
(d) When John was 9 months old.

15. Who is the hero of Fathers and Sons, the book Lessing cites in this chapter?
(a) Karamazov.
(b) Borislov.
(c) Bazarov.
(d) Turgenev.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lessing describe Frank Cooper's views on the world?

2. What did the Portuguese woman give to Lessing?

3. To which party did Ken Graham belong?

4. Why did Kurt and Esther refuse to attend meetings?

5. In what year was Gottfried Lessing born?

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