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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Adichie's concern around young girl's experience with sports?
(a) Adichie worries that girls have parts of themselves silenced and stifled, because sports are male activities.
(b) Adichie considers how this lack of physical activity affects future health for young girls.
(c) Adichie wonders if girls should not play sports, because they are too dangerous.
(d) Adichie fears that girls do not reach higher levels of sports because of their upbringings.

2. Suggestion 2 reminds Ijeawele to do what in regards to parenting?
(a) Do it together.
(b) Do it with only the child's best interest at heart.
(c) Do it knowing you will have to take a submissive role.
(d) Do it with passion.

3. 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 fathers in their new roles as equal parents.
(b) How to best support children growing up to be functioning adults.
(c) How to best support parents in their combined duties at work and home.
(d) How to best support mothers in the workforce.

4. Adichie recommends that Chizalum be measured on what type of scale according to the ideologies of Suggestion 3?
(a) Chizalum should not be measured.
(b) Chizalum needs to be measured according to her peers.
(c) Chizalum should be measured according to what other prideful girls are doing.
(d) Chizalum needs to be measured on a scale of being the best version of herself.

5. Because of the previous recommendations in Suggestion 3, Adichie asks that Chizalum be given what?
(a) To be seen as an individual.
(b) To be a subservient woman.
(c) To learn how to fight misogyny.
(d) To battle gender roles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Adichie encounter feminism within the child's clothing industry?

2. What argument is made about cooking in Suggestion 3?

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

4. What is a fear that Adichie recognizes that mothers have about fathers in Suggestion 2?

5. What warning does Adichie make to her friend at the end of the Opening of the Letter?

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