5. Why would Gottfried and Lessing often drive into the suburbs?
(a) To visit Lessing's dying father.
(b) To shop for specialty goods.
(c) To avoid the noise of the city.
(d) To stay in the suburbs with friends.

6. Where did Frank and Lessing go on their honeymoon?
(a) Beira.
(b) London.
(c) Umtali.
(d) Capetown.

7. What did Dr. Rosen suggest to Lessing when she went in for surgery to repair her retroverted uterus?
(a) Sterilization.
(b) Fertility testing.
(c) Abortion.
(d) Birth control pills.

8. What aspect of her childhood determined that Lessing would never separate herself from politics?
(a) Listening to her parents' impossible ideas.
(b) Listening to the BBC each day.
(c) Listening to the ideas of the African workers whom her family employed.
(d) Listening to the way that her parents treated the servants.

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

10. What book does Lessing cite in her discussion of the Russian front?
(a) Darkness at Noon.
(b) All Quiet on the Western Front.
(c) The Real Thing.
(d) The Forgotten Soldier.

11. Who was the Minister of Finance?
(a) Max Danziger.
(b) Frank Wisdom.
(c) Arthur Koestler.
(d) Gunther Maynard.

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

13. What did the Portuguese woman give to Lessing?
(a) A red dress.
(b) A red shawl.
(c) A red evening bag.
(d) A red hat.

14. What time of day would Gottfried get up to go to the tobacco auctions?
(a) 6 a.m.
(b) 5 a.m.
(c) 3 a.m.
(d) 7 a.m.

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