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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 cage.
(b) A ghost.
(c) An octopus.
(d) A mirage.

2. The author brings up the case of a woman she knows who hates what, but pretends to like it because it will make her "good wife material" (33)?
(a) Dressing up.
(b) Lacemaking.
(c) Wearing makeup.
(d) Domestic duties.

3. What is NOT a way the author feels when she gets ignored in a Nigerian restaurant?
(a) Inhuman.
(b) Invisible.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Upset.

4. The author insists that in modern society, "we stifle the" (26) what of boys?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Playfulness.
(c) Vulnerability.
(d) Humanity.

5. When the author describes a woman she knows who has the same degree and job as her husband, for the completion of what task does the woman always thank her husband?
(a) For taking out the trash.
(b) For cashing her paycheck.
(c) For doing the dishes.
(d) For changing their baby's diaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that she has never thought it made much sense to leave what crucial task in the hands of others?

2. What was the name of the law enacted by President Obama in 2009 that sought to reduce the income gap between men and women?

3. What word does the author say she dislikes above all other English words?

4. The author asks that the reader begin to dream about and plan for "a world of happier men and happier women" who are more what?

5. The author marvels at how many female American friends of hers are ridiculously invested in being what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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