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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author describes her evolving feminist self-labels as being what?
(a) For her own amusement.
(b) Ironic.
(c) Tongue-in-cheek.
(d) Hyperbolic.

2. What was NOT one of the duties assigned to a class monitor?
(a) To patrol the class for noisemakers.
(b) To hit distracted children with a cane.
(c) To write the names of noisemakers.
(d) To hold a cane.

3. The author's first novel was about a man who did what?
(a) Robbed a bank.
(b) Murdered his child.
(c) Had three wives.
(d) Beat his wife.

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

5. About what issue had the author and Okoloma been arguing when he named her as a feminist?
(a) Pay inequality.
(b) The practice of holding the door open for another person.
(c) Career opportunities.
(d) The author does not recall the subject of the argument.

Short Answer Questions

1. What genre of books does Mills and Boon produce?

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

3. The author relates that her primary school teacher had announced that how many of the top test-takers would become class monitors?

4. What adverb does the author use to describe the manner in which the young men in Lagos help people park their cars?

5. The author describes the city of Lagos as having almost how many people?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would you characterize Adichie's relationship with Okoloma?

2. How did Adichie's expectations of the audience's reaction differ from the way in which the audience actually reacted to the author's speech about feminism?

3. What exposition does Adichie provide within her anecdote about the role of class monitor?

4. What is Adichie's reaction to the journalist's criticism of her novel and how does it display themes inherent to the essay?

5. What is ironic about Adichie's revelation that she read "every single Mills and Boon romance published" (8) before she was 16?

6. How does Adichie characterize Louis's views on gender before the tipping incident?

7. What is Adichie's purpose for using the second person point of view within her list of the connotations associated with the word feminist?

8. How does the theme of perspective reemerge within Adichie's anecdote about her friend Louis?

9. What is the underlying meaning behind Adichie's statement that "feminism was un-African"? (8)

10. Describe the occasion when Adichie was first called a feminist and how she received the comment.

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