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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 recalls when her friend Louis told her, "Everything is" what "now for women"? (12)
(a) Fair.
(b) Good.
(c) Equal.
(d) Fine.

2. The author brings up the case of a woman she knows who hates what, but pretends to like it because it will make her "good wife material" (33)?
(a) Wearing makeup.
(b) Lacemaking.
(c) Dressing up.
(d) Domestic duties.

3. The author insists that bottom power is not really power at all since what condition is present?
(a) Education costs money that many women cannot afford.
(b) The woman does not have her own power and is just tapping into someone else's power.
(c) It is gained through fear and intimidation.
(d) The man does not have his own power and is just tapping into someone else's power.

4. The author states that most of the positions of power in the world are occupied by whom?
(a) Baby boomers.
(b) Men.
(c) Sexists.
(d) The rich.

5. When an acquaintance attacked the author's article, saying that it was too angry, the article had focused on the nature of being what two qualities while living in Lagos?
(a) Young and female.
(b) Strong and female.
(c) Weak and oppressed.
(d) Poor and unemployed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wangari Maathai famously said that "the higher you go, the fewer" what "there are" (16)?

2. What one regret does the author have about her first day of teaching?

3. What was the title of the author's first novel?

4. In what year was the author's original TED Talk about feminism given?

5. The author states that when she looked up the word feminism in the dictionary as a teenager, the definition had been "a person who believes in the equality of the sexes" (45). What is NOT one type of equality mentioned in the dictionary definition?

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