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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 16-24.

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

2. In what town did the author attend primary school?
(a) Lagos.
(b) Abuja.
(c) Akure.
(d) Nsukka.

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 movies.
(b) Western newspapers.
(c) Western books.
(d) Western magazines.

4. The author says that "if we see something over and over, it becomes" (12) what?
(a) Part of the landscape.
(b) Normal.
(c) Invisible.
(d) Integral to our lives.

5. One of the participants in the author's writing workshop had been told by a friend not to do what?
(a) To tell her husband about her enrollment in the workshop.
(b) To talk to the author after the end of the workshop.
(c) To share her personal feelings with the author.
(d) To listen to the author's feminist ideas.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. From what source does the author say the man in Lagos had believed that all her money had originated?

4. The author states that physically, men are in general more what than women are?

5. While she was promoting her first novel, the author says that a female academic told her that feminism was what?

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