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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the author name as being the first person to call her a feminist?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Okoloma.
(c) Kene.
(d) Louis.

2. What type of point of view is used within the author's list of stereotypical qualities attributed to feminists?
(a) Second person.
(b) A combination of second and first person.
(c) First person.
(d) Third person.

3. 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 pretty for such a label.
(c) That she was probably gay.
(d) That she was too political for her own good.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author describes the word feminist as being what with "negative baggage" (8)?

2. When the man advised the author not to call herself a feminist, he said that feminists are women who are unhappy because of what reason??

3. What happened during the author's original TED Talk about feminism that the author says gave her hope?

4. About what issue had the author and Okoloma been arguing when he named her as a feminist?

5. What name did the author decide to call herself after listening to the man advise her not to call herself a feminist?

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