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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What condition does the author say must be met before she goes out to restaurants or cafes in Lagos?
(a) It must be afternoon.
(b) It must be past midnight.
(c) It must be evening.
(d) It must be morning.

2. The author describes the word feminist as being what with "negative baggage" (8)?
(a) Loaded.
(b) Full.
(c) Swarming.
(d) Heavy.

3. What is NOT listed as one of the duties performed by the men who park cars in Lagos?
(a) Finding parking spots for drivers.
(b) Guiding drivers into parking spots.
(c) Washing people's cars.
(d) Looking after people's cars.

4. What detail of Okoloma's method of dress is remembered vividly by the author?
(a) Okoloma wore cowboy boots.
(b) Okoloma wore a bolo tie.
(c) Okoloma wore a dashiki.
(d) Okoloma wore an ascot.

5. What gesture does the author remember the man making as he advised her not to call herself a feminist?
(a) He was gesticulating with his hands.
(b) He was looking down at his shoes.
(c) He was shaking his head sadly.
(d) He was standing with his hands on his hips.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the author perform on the test meant to assign class monitors?

2. What does the author say about the class monitor incident?

3. The author's first novel was about a man who did what?

4. What does the author give as the reason for why the man in Lagos had believed what he had about the source of the author's money?

5. Because the author had not known what the word feminist meant the first time it was applied to her, she planned to do what the moment she arrived home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Adichie describe the boy who was awarded the role of class monitor and do her revelations depict her message about focusing on interest and ability rather than on gender?

2. What is the symbolism of the cane in the anecdote about the class monitor?

3. What were the duties of the class monitor at Adichie's primary school?

4. What did Adichie decide to do the first time she was called a feminist and why?

5. What is Adichie's reaction to the journalist's criticism of her novel and how does it display themes inherent to the essay?

6. Describe the occasion when Adichie was first called a feminist and how she received the comment.

7. What was the topic of Adichie's previous talk entitled "The Danger of the Single Story" (3)?

8. What is ironic about Adichie's revelation that she read "every single Mills and Boon romance published" (8) before she was 16?

9. How does the theme of perspective reemerge within Adichie's anecdote about her friend Louis?

10. How did Adichie's expectations of the audience's reaction differ from the way in which the audience actually reacted to the author's speech about feminism?

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