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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 coddle the baby when she cries.
(c) Chudi cannot cook the meals.
(d) Chudi cannot breastfeed.

2. What does Adichie introduce as a true Igbo tradition in Suggestion 1?
(a) The father working and the mother staying at home.
(b) The mother staying home.
(c) A double-income family.
(d) The mother working and raising the children.

3. How does Adichie feel about Sanders' advice?
(a) Adichie believes it is strong and thoughtful.
(b) Adichie believes it will make Chizalum a better feminist.
(c) Adichie believes it is wise and moving.
(d) Adichie believes is will make Chizalum a better person.

4. Why does Adichie warn her friend about this concept at the start of Suggestion 4?
(a) Adichie warns her, because it is a hollow, appeasing, and bankrupt; it does not require one to fully believe in the cause.
(b) Adichie warns her, because it is a mean, ineffective, silly interpretation of feminism; it does not require advocacy.
(c) Adichie warns her, because she wants to affirm that feminism is a serious topic.
(d) Adichie warns her, because she does not want Ijeawele to become affiliated with the wrong types of feminists.

5. In Suggestion 6, what does Adichie ask Chizalum to question about men who have empathy for women?
(a) Chizalum should question men who only accept women who are beautiful rather than for what they do.
(b) Chizalum should question men who only see women as rational rather than individuals.
(c) Chizalum should question men who see women as objects and not people.
(d) Chizalum should question all men's motives when it comes to empathizing with women.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Suggestion 3 presents what overarching idea at the start?

4. What is this book a version of?

5. What does Adichie propose Ijeawele teach her daughter to overcome all the issues presented in Suggestion 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Adichie reject the language of help?

2. Why does Ijeawele need to choose her language when speaking with Chizalum?

3. Why does Adichie feel she might be qualified to respond to her friend's request in the Introduction?

4. As mentioned in Suggestion 3, why do we need to question the idea of marriage as a prize to women?

5. What is Adichie's general opinion about cooking in relation to gender expectations?

6. What are some of the phrases and implications of Feminism Lite Adichie points out as being troubling in Suggestion 4?

7. Adichie states that she hears women say, "Leave the woman alone to do what she wants as long as her husband allows" (22). Why does Adichie argue against this statement?

8. What specific example does Adichie provide in Suggestion 3 that conveys how gender roles are nonsense?

9. Why is Adichie upset about children's clothing options in relation to gender?

10. In the closing of Suggestion 2, why does Adichie disagree with her friend, Nwabu, on his perception of being a single dad?

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