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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 is NOT listed as one of the duties performed by the men who park cars in Lagos?
2. Whom did the man in Lagos thank for the tip given to him by the author?
3. The author says that "if we see something over and over, it becomes" (12) what?
4. How old was the author when the qualifying tests were given to determine the roles of class monitors?
5. The author describes her dear friend Louis as a "brilliant" and what kind of man?
Short Essay Questions
1. What examples does Adichie provide for her claims that if we see or "do the same thing over and over, it becomes normal"? (10)
2. What is the underlying meaning behind Adichie's statement that "feminism was un-African"? (8)
3. What was Adichie's reason for choosing the subject of feminism for her speech?
4. What is Adichie's purpose for using the second person point of view within her list of the connotations associated with the word feminist?
5. How does the theme of perspective reemerge within Adichie's anecdote about her friend Louis?
6. What is ironic about Adichie's revelation that she read "every single Mills and Boon romance published" (8) before she was 16?
7. What is ironic about the teacher's statement that the class monitor of course had to be a boy and that she had thought this fact would be "obvious" (10)?
8. 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?
9. How does Adichie employ self-deprecating humor in her anecdote about the Nigerian journalist?
10. What did Adichie decide to do the first time she was called a feminist and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What elements of spoken language are present within Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s essay and how do these elements typically used in speeches help to advance her arguments?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
What is the author's message regarding the connection between anger and productivity and how does she get this message across to the reader?
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