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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. The author states unequivocally that society spends too much time teaching girls to worry about what?
2. The author laments the fact that society teaches girls to see each other as competitors for what?
3. What is NOT a way the author feels when she gets ignored in a Nigerian restaurant?
4. The author states that in what kind of way, men rule the world?
5. The author states that she knows an unmarried woman who does what when she goes to conferences so that she will be given respect by her colleagues?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Adichie employ irony within her story of the woman who pretended to like housework?
2. In what way does Adichie describe the difference between prescription and description as they relate to gender?
3. How is the theme of language obscuring truth displayed within Adichie's mention of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act?
4. What did the late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai mean when she said, "The higher you go, the fewer women there are" (17)?
5. How does Adichie set up a juxtaposition between the role of leadership today and the role of leadership 1,000 years ago?
6. What horrific event does Adichie refer to as an effect of Nigerians being raised to think of women as "inherently guilty" (33)?
7. What evidence does Adichie provide for her claim that "men and women are different" (16)?
8. What is Adichie's purpose in including the scene of her own interrogation by the guard at the Nigerian hotel?
9. What difference does Adichie point out about girls are taught to view marriage versus how boys are taught to view marriage?
10. What is Adichie's suggested solution to the problem of boys and girls seeing money as being linked to masculinity?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine how Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s essay invites readers to learn particular lessons from her own experiences and to apply those lessons to their own lives. How does she accomplish this goal and how does this goal relate to the overarching themes of the text?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that discusses the author's purpose for her juxtaposition of the two countries of Nigeria and the United States in her discussion of gender.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the significance of the author’s knowledge of her great-grandmother that she includes in the final section of her essay. How do its elements connect to the overall themes within the essay?
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