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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 adjective does the author use to describe her reaction to the female academic's accusation that Western culture had infiltrated the author's mind?
(a) Anger.
(b) Frustration.
(c) Glee.
(d) Amusement.

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

3. The female academic told the author that the author was only calling herself a feminist because she had been influenced by what?
(a) Western magazines.
(b) Western books.
(c) Western newspapers.
(d) Western movies.

4. While she was promoting her first novel, the author says that a female academic told her that feminism was what?
(a) A blessing.
(b) Un-African.
(c) Unladylike.
(d) A birthright.

5. 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?
(a) Ask her brother the meaning of the word.
(b) Look up the word in the dictionary.
(c) Ask her mother the meaning of the word.
(d) Look up the word in the encyclopedia.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What type of point of view is used within the author's list of stereotypical qualities attributed to feminists?

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

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