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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What gesture does the author remember the man making as he advised her not to call herself a feminist?
2. What two adjectives does the author use to describe the man's reaction to receiving a tip?
3. What adjective does the author use to describe her reaction to the female academic's accusation that Western culture had infiltrated the author's mind?
4. What genre of books does Mills and Boon produce?
5. With whom had Louis and the author been out to dinner the night of the incident with the man in Lagos?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who tells Adichie that calling herself a feminist means that she hates men and why is this source significant?
2. What is the symbolism of the cane in the anecdote about the class monitor?
3. How does Adichie employ self-deprecating humor in her anecdote about the Nigerian journalist?
4. How does the theme of perspective reemerge within Adichie's anecdote about her friend Louis?
5. What is the underlying meaning behind Adichie's statement that "feminism was un-African"? (8)
6. 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?
7. What is ironic about Adichie's revelation that she read "every single Mills and Boon romance published" (8) before she was 16?
8. Describe the occasion when Adichie was first called a feminist and how she received the comment.
9. How does Adichie characterize Louis's views on gender before the tipping incident?
10. What examples does Adichie provide for her claims that if we see or "do the same thing over and over, it becomes normal"? (10)
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the author employ the use or rejection of fallacy within her argumentative essay and how does the inclusion of fallacy help the author to prove her own points within the essay?
Essay Topic 2
What ultimate message is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s essay sending about the nature and value of continually examining one’s own thought patterns and behaviors?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the significance of the author’s knowledge of her great-grandmother that she includes in the final section of her essay. How do its elements connect to the overall themes within the essay?
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