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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Aunt Betty Cleverly like most women of her generation?
(a) Aunt Betty was unhappily married.
(b) Aunt Betty had decided not to marry.
(c) Aunt Betty was committed to Victorian values.
(d) Aunt Betty's lover was killed in the War.

2. According to the quote at the opening of Chapter 1, the girl in Lessing's mother's favorite saying only cared about which of the following?
(a) Books and studying.
(b) Singing and prancing.
(c) Horses and dancing.
(d) Cats and flowers.

3. In Chapter 4, what city did Lessing's mother insist on traveling through on the way back to England?
(a) Paris.
(b) Brussels.
(c) Moscow.
(d) London.

4. Which of the following does Lessing blame for the distrust that 20th Century people have in their governments?
(a) World War II.
(b) Media coverage.
(c) Political corruption.
(d) World War I.

5. Where was John McVeagh born?
(a) Portugal.
(b) Rhodesia.
(c) England.
(d) Persia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many adults lived in the Persian house while Lessing was growing up?

2. What did Lessing's father think of his Persian business partners?

3. What did Doris insist on having with her in the photograph for which she posed?

4. What remained unaffected by the Lessings' existence for 20 years?

5. Why did Lessing's father miss the Battle of the Somme?

(see the answer key)

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