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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eleven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Lessing, what happens to women as time passes?
(a) Women become more significant to a culture's public culture.
(b) Women fade into the domestic sphere.
(c) Women assert themselves as powerful people.
(d) Women are dropped from memory, then history.

2. Which company offered loans to the farmers in Lessing's region?
(a) Southern Rhodesian Farming Association.
(b) The British National Bank.
(c) Land Bank.
(d) The National Bank of Southern Rhodesia.

3. What did Lessing's parents think of the Whiteheads when they first met them?
(a) That they would be useful in developing relationships.
(b) That they were shifty and unsatisfactory.
(c) That they could betray them at any time.
(d) That they should return to England.

4. Which of the following killed one of the chickens and took off with a couple of eggs?
(a) A mongoose.
(b) A mischievous child.
(c) A cat.
(d) A snake.

5. Who recommended that Lessing see a particular doctor for an abortion?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Mabel Griffiths.
(c) Frank's sister.
(d) Ivy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What stove brand did Lessing's family use?

2. Where did Frank and Lessing go on their honeymoon?

3. What type of play did Lessing write while at the Convent?

4. In Chapter 11, where did Lessing work?

5. Which of the following illnesses did Lessing's family battle?

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