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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Suggestions 7 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one part of the Igbo culture that should be embraced as mentioned in Suggestion 9?
(a) Community.
(b) Dance.
(c) Money.
(d) Tradition.

2. How does Adichie's choice about her name represent a specific bigger issue as she states in Suggestion 7?
(a) It is a challenge to the idea of what is the norm.
(b) It is a challenge to the idea that women can be their own persons.
(c) It is a challenge to the idea of what a female can do with her own name.
(d) It is a challenge to the idea that women cannot have their own last names, because it goes against Igbo tradition.

3. What do both Adichie and Ijeawele agree to do in regards to the Suggestions?
(a) Adichie and Ijeawele agree to follow feminist principles.
(b) Adichie and Ijeawele agree to instill some of the Suggestions.
(c) Adichie and Ijeawele agree to try.
(d) Adichie and Ijeawele agree to keep in touch.

4. Who capitalizes on how we teach girls to be?
(a) Sexual predators.
(b) Parents.
(c) Older men.
(d) Older girls.

5. What is the one activity that Ijeawele's husband, Chudi, cannot participate in while raising their child?
(a) Chudi cannot help clean the house.
(b) Chudi cannot breastfeed.
(c) Chudi cannot coddle the baby when she cries.
(d) Chudi cannot cook the meals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Adichie's friend, Chioma, tell her about being someone people want to be around?

2. At the start of Suggestion 4, what does Adichie warn her friend about?

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

4. Before British Colonialism, what other activity did women do in Nigeria?

5. How does Adichie feel about work as recommended in Suggestion 3?

(see the answer key)

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