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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Suggestions 4 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Adichie's concern around young girl's experience with sports?
(a) Adichie considers how this lack of physical activity affects future health for young girls.
(b) Adichie worries that girls have parts of themselves silenced and stifled, because sports are male activities.
(c) Adichie wonders if girls should not play sports, because they are too dangerous.
(d) Adichie fears that girls do not reach higher levels of sports because of their upbringings.

2. If Philip May were prime minister, what word might we hear in reference to his wife as discussed in Suggestion 4?
(a) Advocate.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Inferior.
(d) Supportive.

3. How does Adichie define the first premise of feminism at the start of her Letter?
(a) The solid independent belief that needs a particular calling.
(b) The solid bending belief that is malleable and important.
(c) The solid feeling that women need equality.
(d) The solid unbending belief that you start off with.

4. As stated in the Introduction, how long ago did the author, Adichie, receive a request her for advice?
(a) 1 year ago.
(b) 5 years ago.
(c) 2 years ago.
(d) 10 years ago.

5. At the end of Suggestion 5, what does the author state as a "worthy investment"?
(a) Telling Chizalum about the importance of reading.
(b) Paying Chizalum to read.
(c) Reading with Chizalum every day.
(d) Giving Chizalum time each day to read.

Short Answer Questions

1. Suggestion 2 reminds Ijeawele to do what in regards to parenting?

2. At the start of Suggestion 5, why should Ijeawele teach Chizalum to read?

3. What is Adichie upset about in regards to emotions in Suggestion 4?

4. Why is it true progress when a woman does not clap after a man cooks a meal according to Suggestion 6?

5. Adichie recommends that Chizalum be measured on what type of scale according to the ideologies of Suggestion 3?

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