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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 does the author say happens every time she tries to read a classic feminist text?
(a) She gets inspired and cannot wait to read another one.
(b) She thinks of her female ancestors.
(c) She gets bored and struggles to finish.
(d) She prays that her daughters will thrive.

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

3. What genre of books does Mills and Boon produce?
(a) Academic textbooks.
(b) Romance novels.
(c) Science fiction novels.
(d) Travel essays.

4. The author says that she had read every published Mills and Boon book before she had turned what age?
(a) 16.
(b) 12.
(c) 18.
(d) 14.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. The author says that at some point, she added to her feminist label the words "Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and" what "for Herself and Not For Men" (8)?

4. 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?

5. In what country was the author promoting her first novel when a man advised her not to call herself a feminist?

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