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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. Whom does the author name as being the first person to call her a feminist?

2. How did the author meet Okoloma?

3. The author says that Okoloma always looked after her like a what?

4. What job did the man hold who advised the author not to call herself a feminist?

5. What detail of Okoloma's method of dress is remembered vividly by the author?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Adichie characterize Louis's views on gender before the tipping incident?

2. What conclusion does Adichie reach as a result of awarding herself the title of "Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Me and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels For Herself and Not For Men" (9)?

3. How does Adichie employ self-deprecating humor in her anecdote about the Nigerian journalist?

4. How does Adichie describe the boy who was awarded the role of class monitor and do her revelations depict her message about focusing on interest and ability rather than on gender?

5. Describe the occasion when Adichie was first called a feminist and how she received the comment.

6. What was Adichie's reason for choosing the subject of feminism for her speech?

7. How is the device of repetition employed within Adichie's list of the connotations associated with the word feminist?

8. How does the theme of perspective reemerge within Adichie's anecdote about her friend Louis?

9. 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?

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

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss three different women that appear within the essay's narrative and compare and contrast their characteristics. How do their roles differ and how are their roles similar? Taken together, what depiction of women is present in the overall narrative of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s essay?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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