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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 object does the author use as a metaphor for masculinity?

2. What percent of the world's population is female?

3. The author states that women have a greater number of opportunities than they did 50 years ago, thanks to changes in what two elements?

4. What does the author state is true of a great many marriages?

5. The author writes that "Anger has a long history of bringing about" (20) what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What difference does Adichie point out about girls are taught to view marriage versus how boys are taught to view marriage?

5. In what way does Adichie describe the difference between prescription and description as they relate to gender?

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

7. What does Adichie judge to be the most severe negative effect society has on boys?

8. How does Adichie set up a juxtaposition between the role of leadership today and the role of leadership 1,000 years ago?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose a symbolic object from the essay We Should All Be Feminists, such as the lip gloss, the Indomie noodles, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text.

Essay Topic 2

Examine Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s use of characterization methods to portray people within her life. What effect do these characterization methods have on the essay's inherent themes and messages?

Essay Topic 3

How does Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie utilize irony within the text? Discuss at least three uses of irony within the essay and explore each instance's connection to larger themes contained within the piece.

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