1.What is the place and time setting?

2.What is the weather like?

3.Complete the following sentences

The woman saw …

The dogs stood … and … in welcome
The man held … and used it to …

4.The woman could not cry because

A. she was caught by surprise B. she trusted Moses C. Moses inserted his hand between her jaws

5.Sum up the end of the novel

6. What kind of narrator is used and whose point of view prevails?

7.State how the characters are presented:

Mary Moses

Description of physical appearance [ ] [ ]

Actions and movements [ ] [ ]

Thoughts and feelings [ ] [ ]

What they say [ ] [ ]

8.What are Mary’s feelings?

9.With the phrase ‘she lifted her hand , claw-like’(line 24) Lessing compares Mary to:

A. a wild animal B. a helpless animal C. a domestic animal

10. Write down the parts of Moses’ body mentioned in the text. What does the insistence on Moses’
physical appearance represent?

11. ‘lightning plunged’(line5) and ‘the crowding shoulders of the trees’ (lines5-6) are:

A. personifications B. similes C. anomatopoeias

12. How would you describe the relationship between the white woman and wild nature?

13. Focus on the symbolic images in the text and write down their meanings:

The bush:
The lightning:
The rain:
Darkness: