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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 36-48.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author points out that women can perform what action, while men cannot?
(a) Experience multiple orgasms.
(b) Feed their children.
(c) Menstruate.
(d) Have babies.

2. The author describes her evolving feminist self-labels as being what?
(a) For her own amusement.
(b) Ironic.
(c) Hyperbolic.
(d) Tongue-in-cheek.

3. What one regret does the author have about her first day of teaching?
(a) She wishes she had told her students how much they meant to her.
(b) She wishes she had not worn an ugly suit.
(c) She wishes she had taught a lesson about gender.
(d) She wishes she had introduced herself properly.

4. With whom had Louis and the author been out to dinner the night of the incident with the man in Lagos?
(a) With friends.
(b) Only with one another.
(c) With family.
(d) With co-workers.

5. The author describes the word feminist as being what with "negative baggage" (8)?
(a) Swarming.
(b) Heavy.
(c) Loaded.
(d) Full.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author tells the story of a Nigeran woman she knows who decided to do what for fear of intimidating a possible future husband?

2. What two qualities does the author suggest that society focus on when raising children instead of focusing on gender?

3. In what year did the author write her first novel?

4. The author states that society teaches girls to make themselves what?

5. What does the author say is more important than changes to policy and law in the fight for gender equality?

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