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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Fifteen, Sixteen and Seventeen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lessing notice about the workers at the Guardian?
(a) Lessing noticed that very few people ran the operation.
(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 whites worked alongside "Indians and Coloured people".

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

3. During the 1930's what did Lessing and her brother hear all of the adults discussing?
(a) The Slump.
(b) The War.
(c) The Native Problem.
(d) The Empire.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 15, whom did Lessing find drinking wine with Gottfried?

2. In Chapter 11, where did Lessing work?

3. How much capital did Lessing's father take to Southern Rhodesia?

4. How many biographers were writing about Lessing at the time that she wrote the book?

5. How did Mrs. Mitchell and her son treat their Black servants?

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