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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Suggestions 1 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of Suggestion 1, Adichie says that we should be asking a certain question of parents. What is that question?
(a) How to best support mothers in the workforce.
(b) How to best support parents in their combined duties at work and home.
(c) How to best support children growing up to be functioning adults.
(d) How to best support fathers in their new roles as equal parents.

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

3. What does Adichie propose Ijeawele teach her daughter to overcome all the issues presented in Suggestion 3?
(a) Adichie says to teach Chizalum to research feminism and use its tools to better her own life.
(b) Adichie says to teach Chizalum how to stand up for herself and teach others about inequality.
(c) Adichie says to teach Chizalum the difference between gender inequality and sexism.
(d) Adichie says to teach Chizalum self-reliance, that it is important for her to have independence.

4. What is a phase that Adichie associates with the notion that caregiving and domestic work are singularly female domains?
(a) "Asking for help."
(b) "Doing it all."
(c) "Gender neutrality."
(d) "Motherhood is more important than work."

5. What charge does Adichie take seriously according to her Letter?
(a) How to raise an independent thinker.
(b) How to raise a religious woman.
(c) How to raise a feminist.
(d) How to raise a strong woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ijeawele's daughter's name?

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

3. How does Adichie define the first premise of feminism at the start of her Letter?

4. What do both Adichie and Ijeawele agree to do in regards to the Suggestions?

5. As mentioned in Suggestion 3, what idea needs to be questioned as far as women's roles in marriage?

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