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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What detail of Okoloma's method of dress is remembered vividly by the author?
(a) Okoloma wore cowboy boots.
(b) Okoloma wore an ascot.
(c) Okoloma wore a bolo tie.
(d) Okoloma wore a dashiki.

2. The man who advised the author not to call herself a feminist confided in her that people were saying her novel was what?
(a) Feminist.
(b) Preachy.
(c) Sexist.
(d) Misogynistic.

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

4. The author says that a dear friend of hers once told her that calling herself a feminist meant what?
(a) That she hated men.
(b) That she was too political for her own good.
(c) That she was too pretty for such a label.
(d) That she was probably gay.

5. The only TED Talk the author had given prior to her speech about feminism was called "The Danger of the Single Story" and focused on what topic?
(a) Sterotypes.
(b) Ageism.
(c) Sexism.
(d) Transphobia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because the author had not known what the word feminist meant the first time it was applied to her, she planned to do what the moment she arrived home?

2. What gesture does the author remember the man making as he advised her not to call herself a feminist?

3. The author's first novel was about a man who did what?

4. The author says that the first time she was called a feminist, the speaker's tone had been the same tone a person would use to accuse someone of being a what?

5. The author's original TED Talk about feminism was given at Hi, a yearly conference focused on what?

(see the answer key)

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