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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 types of aunties should Ijeawele surround Chizalum with, according to Adichie?
(a) Women who are educated and kind to others.
(b) Women who have qualities you would like her to admire.
(c) Women who have many friends and speak their minds.
(d) Women who follow Igbo tradition and make good wives.

2. Why does Adichie feel is a reason it is difficult for women to keep their names according to Suggestion 7?
(a) Keeping their names makes their husbands angry, and they treat them poorly.
(b) Keeping their names implies that they are not committed to their husbands.
(c) Keeping their names requires energy - mental, emotional, even physical.
(d) Keeping their names means they are too feminine.

3. What should Chizalum do if another child takes her toy?
(a) Chizalum should share.
(b) Chizalum should take it back.
(c) Chizalum should let it go and find another toy.
(d) Chizalum should fight the other child for what is hers.

4. Right before Adichie signs-off her letter, what does she ask Ijeawele?
(a) Adichie asks if Ijeawele has learned much from her letter.
(b) Adichie asks if Ijeawele has a headache after reading the long letter.
(c) Adichie asks if Ijeawele will still raise her daughter feminist.
(d) Adichie asks if Ijeawele will respond with a response.

5. Who does Adichie particularly admire as an African American feminist?
(a) Ama Ata Aidoo.
(b) Dora Akunyili.
(c) Muthoni Likmani.
(d) Florynce Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. When should Chizalum accept people walking different paths, as recommended by Suggestion 15?

2. What does a woman have to be successful at to keep her own name, according to Adichie's friends (33)?

3. Suggestion 13 says that Ijeawele needs to teach Chizalum that love is not only about giving. Love is also about what?

4. In Suggestion 13, what does Adichie say we teach girls but not boys about love?

5. What should Ijeawele do about the onslaught of white beauty Chizalum will see?

Short Essay Questions

1. How can Ijeawele be prepared for Chizalum to have sex before 18 as stated in Suggestion 12?

2. What specific topics and examples can Ijeawele bring into a conversation about difference?

3. What physical mainstream world values will Chizalum encounter as mentioned on Page 46?

4. Why does Adichie think that schooling will not teach Chizalum all that she needs to know?

5. What are some examples of the harmfulness of likeability in girls and women, according to Adichie?

6. Why would it be disingenuous for Ijeawele to teach Chizalum that sex is only for reproduction?

7. In Suggestion 14, why does Adichie ask Chizalum to not treat the oppressed like saints?

8. At the end of Suggestion 10, why does Adichie say that she cannot overstate the power of alternatives?

9. Why does Adichie recommend Chizalum not be taught to be non-judgmental at the end of Suggestion 15?

10. Why does Adichie say that Ijeawele should selectively teach Chizalum about Igbo tradition?

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