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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 does Adichie decide to do as a response to Ijeawele's request in the Introduction?
(a) Adichie decides to speak with Ijeawele's daughter.
(b) Adichie decides to write a book.
(c) Adichie decides to speak with Ijeawele.
(d) Adichie decides to write a letter.

2. What is one way a new mother can approach parenting as recommended in Suggestion 1?
(a) Do take the advice of her husband seriously.
(b) Do listen to other Igbo mothers.
(c) Do not follow others' ways.
(d) Do not assume you know everything.

3. Toward the middle of Suggestion 1, Adichie identifies what trait as being important to motherhood?
(a) Always reaching for perfectionism.
(b) Giving oneself room to fail.
(c) Parenting equally with a partner.
(d) Being active in instilling feministic notions at an early age.

4. Why is it true progress when a woman does not clap after a man cooks a meal according to Suggestion 6?
(a) When she claps, this implies that cooking is an inherently female act.
(b) Her clapping gives the man the impression that he is good at something that he is not.
(c) When she claps, she is giving unnecessary praise.
(d) Her clapping tells the man that she loves him for his cooking.

5. What question does Adichie's friend, Ijeawele, ask her at the start of the text?
(a) How to take care of her daughter.
(b) How to raise her daughter to be smart.
(c) How to raise her son as a feminist.
(d) How to raise her daughter as a feminist.

Short Answer Questions

1. If Philip May were prime minister, what word might we hear in reference to his wife as discussed in Suggestion 4?

2. In Suggestion 1, what piece of advice does the pioneering journalist, Marlene Sanders, give?

3. How does Adichie feel about Sanders' advice?

4. What is an example that Adichie provides in response to portraying one of the tools at the start of the text?

5. At the start of Suggestion 6, how does the author define "language"?

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