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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following phenomenons did Frank and Lessing consistently criticize?
(a) White superiority.
(b) English customs celebrated in Rhodesia.
(c) Pretensions about education.
(d) Classism.

2. In Chapter 18, which of the following is NOT one of the dictators whom Lessing lists?
(a) Pol Pot.
(b) Mao.
(c) Idi Amin.
(d) Khomeni.

3. Which of the following was NOT a language commonly spoken in the Lessing home?
(a) French.
(b) Spanish.
(c) German.
(d) Russian.

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

5. What affliction struck all members of Lessing's family except her?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Blindness.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Deafness.

6. When did Gottfried Lessing arrive in Southern Rhodesia?
(a) After Kristallnacht.
(b) Immediately following the outbreak of war.
(c) At the end of World War II.
(d) Before the outbreak of World War II.

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

8. Who vouched for Gottfried Lessing to get him out of jail?
(a) Margaret Morgan.
(b) Frank Wisdom.
(c) Doris Lessing.
(d) Howe-Ely.

9. Which book on the experience of Communism does Lessing cite in this chapter?
(a) Stalin's journals.
(b) The Communist Manifesto.
(c) Darkness at Noon.
(d) Das Kapital.

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

11. In Chapter 17, how did Klaus' father keep his name off the debt list?
(a) Klaus' father married the sister of a prominent Nazi.
(b) Klaus' father paid off a Nazi.
(c) Klaus' father blackmailed a Nazi official.
(d) Klaus' father performed an abortion for a Nazi official.

12. In Chapter 19, what was the white population of Salisbury?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 1,500.

13. What had Lessing become after attending meetings with Dorothy?
(a) A Democrat.
(b) A Communist.
(c) A rebel.
(d) A Fascist.

14. With whom did Lessing talk at the Meikles Hotel Lounge?
(a) A former Nazi.
(b) An RAF member.
(c) A committed Communist.
(d) A philandering artist.

15. How does Lessing describe their sex life?
(a) Sad.
(b) Exciting.
(c) Spirited.
(d) Strained.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dr. Rosen suggest to Lessing when she went in for surgery to repair her retroverted uterus?

2. To what does Lessing compare guilt?

3. What did Lessing notice about the workers at the Guardian?

4. What was the primary battle between Lessing and her mother centered upon?

5. What did Lessing's landlady think about her stream of visitors?

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