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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 16-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what country did the author attend primary school?
(a) Zambia.
(b) Nigeria.
(c) Zimbabwe.
(d) South Africa.

2. The author's friend who had not challenged her boss told the author it was because she did not want to seem what?
(a) Aggressive.
(b) Unlikable.
(c) Mean.
(d) Bitchy.

3. What does the author give as the reason for why the man in Lagos had believed what he had about the source of the author's money?
(a) Because Louis is a man.
(b) Because Okoloma is a man.
(c) Because Kene is a man.
(d) Because she is a woman.

4. What is NOT a way the author feels when she gets ignored in a Nigerian restaurant?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Inhuman.
(c) Invisible.
(d) Upset.

5. In what year did the author write her first novel?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2005.
(d) 1999.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author describes her evolving feminist self-labels as being what?

2. From what location did the author pull out the money when tipping the man in Lagos?

3. In what country was the author's original TED Talk about feminism given?

4. What job did the man hold who advised the author not to call herself a feminist?

5. The author says that she often makes "the mistake of thinking that something that is" what "to her is just as" what "to everyone else" (12)?

(see the answer key)

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