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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Suggestions 4 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Adichie feel about work as recommended in Suggestion 3?
(a) Women do not have to have a job; they are allowed to be homemakers.
(b) Women do not have to like their jobs; they have to do them well.
(c) Women do not have to love their jobs; they have to love what their jobs do for them.
(d) Women should love their work to show their independence.

2. At the start of Suggestion 5, why should Ijeawele teach Chizalum to read?
(a) Chizalum will become arguably more knowledgeable than a regularly educated child.
(b) Chizalum will excel in school and go far in life.
(c) Chizalum will be able to make strong arguments for feminism.
(d) Reading will allow Chizalum the freedom to marry any man she wants.

3. Why is Adichie upset about the term her friend, Nwabu, speaking about becoming "Mr. Mom" when his wife left him home with the children?
(a) "Mr. Mom" sounds ridiculous and negates the role.
(b) "Mr. Mom" suggests that men are feminine, which goes against Igbo tradition.
(c) "Mr. Mom" implies that the father is detached from parenting and providing an additional service, when in reality the father is simply being a dad.
(d) "Mr. Mom" emphasizes the inequalities of women and men by giving the revered title of, "Mom," to a man.

4. Why is it true progress when a woman does not clap after a man cooks a meal according to Suggestion 6?
(a) Her clapping gives the man the impression that he is good at something that he is not.
(b) When she claps, this implies that cooking is an inherently female act.
(c) When she claps, she is giving unnecessary praise.
(d) Her clapping tells the man that she loves him for his cooking.

5. At the start of Suggestion 6, how does the author define "language"?
(a) "You will have to question your own language" (26).
(b) "The repository of our prejudices, our beliefs, our assumptions" (26).
(c) "An expensive endeavor" (26).
(d) "It teaches her what she should value" (26).

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Adichie's friend, Ijeawele, ask her at the start of the text?

2. What is the global-middle class phenomenon of "parenting" in accordance with Suggestion 1?

3. In Suggestion 6, what does Adichie ask Chizalum to question about men who have empathy for women?

4. If a husband is not a headmaster according to Adichie, what is a wife not?

5. How are boys' toys different from girls' in Suggestion 3?

(see the answer key)

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