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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Suggestions 10 - 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main point of Suggestion 9?
(a) Give Chizalum a sense of identity.
(b) Allow Chizalum the responsibility of choosing her own friends.
(c) Give Chizalum the freedom to choose any profession.
(d) Allow Chizalum to do anything the things she wants.

2. In Suggestion 10, what does Adichie tell Ijeawele to protect Chizalum from?
(a) Comparing herself to other black women.
(b) Looking at her own reflection with dissatisfaction.
(c) Seeing herself as less than more beautiful women.
(d) Identifying herself with only Igbo traditional standards of beauty.

3. What is the shame we attach to female sexuality truly about, according to Suggestion 12?
(a) Control.
(b) Male dominance.
(c) Family values.
(d) Biology.

4. What do both Adichie and Ijeawele agree to do in regards to the Suggestions?
(a) Adichie and Ijeawele agree to keep in touch.
(b) Adichie and Ijeawele agree to instill some of the Suggestions.
(c) Adichie and Ijeawele agree to follow feminist principles.
(d) Adichie and Ijeawele agree to try.

5. Why do girls remain silenced when abused, as mentioned in Suggestion 8?
(a) Girls do not know who to talk to.
(b) Girls are afraid their abusers will come after them.
(c) Girls do not know what to do.
(d) Girls want to be nice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one way a new mother can approach parenting as recommended in Suggestion 1?

2. What does Adichie believe matters most in relation to the theme of Suggestion 1?

3. Suggestion 3 presents what overarching idea at the start?

4. Because of the previous recommendations in Suggestion 3, Adichie asks that Chizalum be given what?

5. Why is the phrase that "a mother is really in charge behind the scenes" upsetting to feminist thought?

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