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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the building in which Lessing and Gottfried rented their flat?
(a) Jameson Hotel.
(b) Cambridge Woods.
(c) Leander House.
(d) Grand Meikles.

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

3. How does Lessing describe Frank Cooper's views on the world?
(a) Amusing.
(b) Dramatic.
(c) Myopic.
(d) Disconcerting.

4. Why did Lessing's mother rush from the farm to her home?
(a) Lessing's mother wanted to warn her about having too many children too close together.
(b) Lessing's mother needed to inform her of her father's condition/
(c) Lessing's mother wanted to end her marriage to Frank.
(d) Lessing's mother had heard rumors of an impending divorce.

5. What was the black population of Salisbury?
(a) 1,000,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 10,000.

6. Who is the central character of Lessing's "The Good Terrorist"- a book that Lessing references in this chapter?
(a) Ivy.
(b) Alice.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Jamie.

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

8. What development in young John's life took very little effort from Lessing?
(a) Toilet training.
(b) Crawling.
(c) Walking
(d) Speaking.

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

10. In Chapter 13, who did Lessing encounter in the street?
(a) Her brother, Harry.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Gottfried Lessing.
(d) Dorothy Schwartz.

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 performed an abortion for a Nazi official.
(d) Klaus' father blackmailed a Nazi official.

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

13. What type of culture existed in Southern Rhodesia?
(a) A smoking culture.
(b) A sexually permissive culture.
(c) A drinking culture.
(d) A racially-integrated culture.

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

15. In what year was Gottfried Lessing born?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1921.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the hero of Fathers and Sons, the book Lessing cites in this chapter?

2. What method of birth control had Lessing been using?

3. Where did Kurt claim his real education occurred?

4. Who recommended that Lessing see a particular doctor for an abortion?

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

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