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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 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?
(a) She had gone home and cried.
(b) She had resigned.
(c) She had filed an anonymous complaint.
(d) She had called the author in order to vent.

2. The author states that women have a greater number of opportunities than they did 50 years ago, thanks to changes in what two elements?
(a) Policy and law.
(b) Career and financial stability.
(c) Education and human rights improvements.
(d) Marriage and family.

3. The author states that in Nigeria, a Nigerian female walking into a hotel alone is automatically assumed to be a what?
(a) A businesswoman.
(b) A sex worker.
(c) A feminist.
(d) A divorcee.

4. 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 listen to the author's feminist ideas.
(d) To share her personal feelings with the author.

5. The author marvels at the vast number of magazine articles and books all over the world that teach women how to do what?
(a) Attract or please men.
(b) Be submissive.
(c) Settle.
(d) Manipulate and abuse other women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a way the author feels when she gets ignored in a Nigerian restaurant?

2. The author writes that "Anger has a long history of bringing about" (20) what?

3. The author states that society teaches girls to make themselves what?

4. The author's friend who had not challenged her boss told the author it was because she did not want to seem what?

5. The author states that modern society teaches boys to do what to their true selves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What horrific event does Adichie refer to as an effect of Nigerians being raised to think of women as "inherently guilty" (33)?

2. What does Adichie judge to be the most severe negative effect society has on boys?

3. What details about the city of Lagos does Adichie reveal within her comparison of the city to other world cities?

4. What example does Adichie provide for her statement that "sometimes it is the little things that sting the most" (21)?

5. How does Adichie set up a juxtaposition between the role of leadership today and the role of leadership 1,000 years ago?

6. How does Adichie characterize her feelings about her home country of Nigeria?

7. How is the appeal of ethos present within Adichie's claim that she cannot go alone into bars and clubs in Nigeria?

8. In what way does Adichie describe the difference between prescription and description as they relate to gender?

9. How does Adichie employ irony within her story of the woman who pretended to like housework?

10. How does Adichie contrast the status of an unmarried woman with the status of an unmarried man?

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