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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 object does the author use as a metaphor for masculinity?
(a) A mirage.
(b) A cage.
(c) A ghost.
(d) An octopus.

2. What is NOT on the author's list of feelings that society teaches boys to fear?
(a) Vulnerability.
(b) Egomania.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Fear.

3. What two qualities does the author suggest that society focus on when raising children instead of focusing on gender?
(a) Money and fame.
(b) Happiness and satisfaction.
(c) Ability and interest.
(d) Suitability and adaptability.

4. What was the position of the man who stopped the author at the door of her Nigerian hotel?
(a) A guard.
(b) A doorman.
(c) A bellhop.
(d) A valet.

5. In what city does the author teach a writing workshop?
(a) Lagos.
(b) Jos.
(c) Abuja.
(d) Ibadan.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states unequivocally that society spends too much time teaching girls to worry about what?

2. Wangari Maathai famously said that "the higher you go, the fewer" what "there are" (16)?

3. One of the participants in the author's writing workshop had been told by a friend not to do what?

4. What hormone does the author say that men have more of than women?

5. What percent of the world's population is female?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Adichie differentiate between positive competition between girls and negative competition between girls?

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

3. What is Adichie's stated reason for wanting to tip the young man who had watched her car in her absence?

4. What is Adichie's suggested solution to the problem of boys and girls seeing money as being linked to masculinity?

5. What effects does tAdichie list when discussing how society teaches girls to feel ashamed?

6. What does tAdichie present as the reason that women do not just "say no to all of this" (28) in relation to gender expectations?

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

8. How is the theme of language obscuring truth displayed within Adichie's mention of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act?

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

10. What does Adichie state would be the effects of people living their lives free of gender expectations?

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