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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. What adverb does the author use to describe the manner in which the young men in Lagos help people park their cars?
(a) Gladly.
(b) Slowly.
(c) Hastily.
(d) Dramatically.

2. In what year was the author's original TED Talk about feminism given?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2006.
(d) 2015.

3. What condition does the author say must be met before she goes out to restaurants or cafes in Lagos?
(a) It must be morning.
(b) It must be afternoon.
(c) It must be evening.
(d) It must be past midnight.

4. What superlative adjective does the author use to describe the city of Lagos?
(a) Smallest.
(b) Largest.
(c) Richest.
(d) Poorest.

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. In what country did the author attend primary school?

2. How much money did the author give as a tip to the man in Lagos?

3. When the man advised the author not to call herself a feminist, he said that feminists are women who are unhappy because of what reason??

4. After the man in Lagos's comment at receiving a tip, the author says she saw what "dawn on Louis's face"? (14)

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Adichie decide to do the first time she was called a feminist and why?

2. What is Adichie's purpose for waiting until the end of the anecdote to reveal that she was not allowed to be class monitor since she was a girl?

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

4. What is ironic about the teacher's statement that the class monitor of course had to be a boy and that she had thought this fact would be "obvious" (10)?

5. 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?

6. What examples does Adichie provide for her claims that if we see or "do the same thing over and over, it becomes normal"? (10)

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

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

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

10. How is the device of repetition employed within Adichie's list of the connotations associated with the word feminist?

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