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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lessing describe as another form of intoxication aside from alcohol?
(a) Her newfound ability to earn money.
(b) Her body.
(c) Her book collection.
(d) Her rebellion against her parents.

2. According to Lessing, what tactic did the armies use to make killing easier?
(a) Derogatory epithets and dehumanizing language.
(b) Vague meetings on military idealism.
(c) Long-distance weapons.
(d) Aerial raids on villages.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did all the women assume about Lessing's marriage to Frank?

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

3. What aspect of her childhood determined that Lessing would never separate herself from politics?

4. What skills did Lessing teach herself during that year?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did John react to the birth of his little sister?

2. What rationale did Lessing give for her marriage to Gottfried Lessing in Chapter 14?

3. When John was 9 months old, what did Lessing and Frank decide to do?

4. In Chapter 13, how did Lessing rationalize her decision to leave Frank and their two children?

5. What conditions did Lessing ponder as possible circumstances that would have changed her views on Communism?

6. What did Lessing realize when she was diagnosed with Low Fever and sent to the mountains to recover?

7. Discuss Lessing's mini-vacation to Capetown.

8. How did Lessing describe Kurt in Chapter 16?

9. What became of the three husbands who enlisted to fight Hitler?

10. In Chapter 15, what reason did Lessing give for switching law firms?

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