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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 26-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say about the class monitor incident?
(a) She has never forgotten it.
(b) It illustrates skewed gender norms.
(c) She has never stopped being furious about it.
(d) The teacher had apologized to her later.

2. The author states that the socialization inflicted upon girls makes them grow up to be women who have by then turned what into an art form?
(a) Pretense.
(b) Submission.
(c) Manipulation.
(d) Deception.

3. The author insists that in modern society, "we stifle the" (26) what of boys?
(a) Playfulness.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Vulnerability.
(d) Humanity.

4. What genre of books does Mills and Boon produce?
(a) Romance novels.
(b) Travel essays.
(c) Science fiction novels.
(d) Academic textbooks.

5. What prestigious position was held by Wangari Maathai before her death?
(a) The Nobel Prize Winner for Literature.
(b) The United States Poet Laureate.
(c) The Kenyan Nobel peace laureate.
(d) The ambassador to Kenya.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the author write her first novel?

2. The author says that at some point, she added to her feminist label the words "Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and" what "for Herself and Not For Men" (8)?

3. The author says that modern society raises girls who cannot say that they have what?

4. The author describes her evolving feminist self-labels as being what?

5. The author points out that women can perform what action, while men cannot?

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