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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 was the name of the law enacted by President Obama in 2009 that sought to reduce the income gap between men and women?
(a) The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
(b) The Family and Medical Leave Act.
(c) The Equal Credit Opportunity Act.
(d) The Equal Pay Act.

2. The author states that society teaches a woman at a certain age who is still what, to see it as "a deep personal failure" (29)?
(a) Without a home.
(b) Childless.
(c) Unmarried.
(d) Without a career.

3. The author states that women are instructed to always keep in mind that what aspect of life is the most important?
(a) Travel.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Career.
(d) Children.

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

5. What threat does the author say is much more likely to be levied against a woman than against a man?
(a) The possibility of physical violence.
(b) The possibility of demotion.
(c) The possibility of having a ruined or nonexistent marriage.
(d) The possibility of having to resort to sex work.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that she knows that the lack of acknowledgement of women in Nigerian restaurants is not meant to intend what?

2. What action is NOT included in the author's list of things American women believe they cannot do if they want to be liked?

3. When an acquaintance attacked the author's article, saying that it was too angry, the article had focused on the nature of being what two qualities while living in Lagos?

4. The author tells the story of a Nigeran woman she knows who decided to do what for fear of intimidating a possible future husband?

5. The author states that most of the positions of prestige in the world are occupied by whom?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What instructions does Adichie include within her list of lessons society teaches girls?

4. How is the theme of experiential learning demonstrated within the anecdote about Louis?

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

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

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

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

9. What is Adichie's purpose in including the scene of her own interrogation by the guard at the Nigerian hotel?

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

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