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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 26-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word does the author say she dislikes above all other English words?
(a) Emasculation.
(b) Defeminization.
(c) Machismo.
(d) Girly.

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

4. What prestigious position was held by Wangari Maathai before her death?
(a) The United States Poet Laureate.
(b) The Nobel Prize Winner for Literature.
(c) The ambassador to Kenya.
(d) The Kenyan Nobel peace laureate.

5. The author states that usually when a man states that he has taken an action "for peace in [his] marriage" (31), it is because he has given up what?
(a) A job, a career goal, or a dream.
(b) Emotional well-being.
(c) Financial security.
(d) An inappropriate hobby.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author relates the story of her friend who had felt slighted by her boss in a meeting and had wanted to challenge him, but had instead taken what action?

2. What is NOT on the author's list of feelings that society teaches boys to fear?

3. The author says that the group of young men in Lagos make a business out of finding parking spots, even when what condition is met?

4. Whom does the author name as being the first person to call her a feminist?

5. The author entreats the reader to "imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of" (33) what?

(see the answer key)

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