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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Ijeawele's daughter when Adichie writes her letter?

2. What is Suggestion 1?

3. What is the sad truth mentioned at the end of Suggestion 4?

4. How will Ijeawele know that child-care work is being equally shared?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How are powerful women "policed" in Adichie's mind (24)?

2. What does Adichie hope to do with the letter as presented in the Introduction?

3. Why is it sexist for men to speak about rape and say, "if it were my daughter or wife or sister" (29).

4. What are some areas of language that Chizalum needs to inspect as recommended in Suggestion 6?

5. What unique choice does Adichie describe in relation to a husband cheating in regards to the start of the letter?

6. At the end of Adichie's letter, what does she mean by, "Sometimes life just does its thing" (7)?

7. Why do Adichie reject the idea of saying that a woman is "doing it all" in Suggestion 1?

8. In Suggestion 1, how do people use tradition in relation to gender inequality?

9. As mentioned in Suggestion 3, why do we need to question the idea of marriage as a prize to women?

10. What are some of the phrases and implications of Feminism Lite Adichie points out as being troubling in Suggestion 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Suggestion 2, there is a debate about how two genders can equally raise a child, and how that equality provides a child with a better understanding of life. How can two parents share the tasks of parenting to ensure equality and devote themselves to giving a child strong background of appropriate gender roles?

Essay Topic 2

In the last Suggestion, Adichie chooses to focus on difference and the usefulness of understanding it to better understand life. Ijeawele needs to make difference an open conversation and an exposed way of viewing the world. How does Adichie recommend the importance of having this conversation?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the text refers to the powerfulness of language in raising a feminist daughter; she even gives it an entire Suggestion in her text. As first discussed in Suggestion, 3, and in correlation with clothing and toy decisions, Adichie highlights some of the main interpretations of language that condition children at a young age to understand their genders in particular ways. What are some of these words and phrases and how do instill gender assumptions?

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