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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why did Lessing begin to eat less during meals?
(a) Because the clothing that would arrive for her was always too small.
(b) Lessing wanted to foil her mother's attempts to feed the family well.
(c) Lessing's mother told her to try to lose weight.
(d) Lessing wanted to impress a farm assistant.

4. What was Lessing's wage when she worked as a junior typist?
(a) £12 a day.
(b) £12 a month.
(c) £12 a year.
(d) £12 a week.

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

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

7. What method of birth control had Lessing been using?
(a) Condoms.
(b) None.
(c) Birth control pills.
(d) The Dutch cap.

8. Why did Kurt and Esther refuse to attend meetings?
(a) Because they could not find a party meeting that appealed to them to attend.
(b) Because they felt that the meetings were childish.
(c) Because they had learned not to speak out politically.
(d) Because they were afraid of being deported.

9. How old was Jean in the scene that Lessing describes in this chapter?
(a) 15 months.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 15 weeks.
(d) 5 years.

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

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

12. 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 there were many women working in important positions.
(c) Lessing noticed that all classes of people were employed there.
(d) Lessing noticed that very few people ran the operation.

13. What historical event happened just before the birth of Lessing's daughter?
(a) The outbreak of WWII.
(b) The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(c) The detente.
(d) The Atlantic Charter.

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

15. What was waiting for Lessing's last son in his crib before he was born?
(a) A mobile.
(b) A quilt.
(c) A teddy bear.
(d) A pacifier.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Gottfried Lessing born?

2. What was the name of the building in which Lessing and Gottfried rented their flat?

3. In Chapter 13, who did Lessing encounter in the street?

4. Where did Lessing first experience a social event in which she and black people were treated equally?

5. To which of the following areas did Lessing travel?

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