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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. The author states that every time she walks into a Nigerian restaurant with a man, who greets the man and ignores her?
2. The author says that modern society raises girls who cannot say that they have what?
3. What is NOT on the author's list of feelings that society teaches boys to fear?
4. Wangari Maathai famously said that "the higher you go, the fewer" what "there are" (16)?
5. The author states that the inhumane response of some Nigerians to the case of a recent gang rape was due to the fact that they have been raised to think of women as inherently what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the theme of experiential learning demonstrated within the anecdote about Louis?
2. In what way does Adichie describe the difference between prescription and description as they relate to gender?
3. What does tAdichie present as the reason that women do not just "say no to all of this" (28) in relation to gender expectations?
4. What example does Adichie provide for her statement that "sometimes it is the little things that sting the most" (21)?
5. How does Adichie contrast the status of an unmarried woman with the status of an unmarried man?
6. What is Adichie's purpose in including the scene of her own interrogation by the guard at the Nigerian hotel?
7. What does Adichie state would be the effects of people living their lives free of gender expectations?
8. What is Adichie's suggested solution to the problem of boys and girls seeing money as being linked to masculinity?
9. What effects does tAdichie list when discussing how society teaches girls to feel ashamed?
10. What does Adichie judge to be the most severe negative effect society has on boys?
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
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
Discuss the author's anecdote regarding her twin nieces and the now defunct traditions of the Igbo people. What themes are demonstrated in the author’s use of this anecdote and what rhetorical devices does she use to make those connections?
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