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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. Though the author grants that boys and girls are different biologically, she claims that what practice "exaggerates the differences" (33)?
2. The author states that to improve the gender problem, we must start by doing what?
3. The author states that society teaches girls to make themselves what?
4. Wangari Maathai famously said that "the higher you go, the fewer" what "there are" (16)?
5. The author relates the story of her friend who had felt slighted by her boss in a meeting and had wanted to challenge him, but had instead taken what action?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the theme of experiential learning demonstrated within the anecdote about Louis?
2. What does tAdichie present as the reason that women do not just "say no to all of this" (28) in relation to gender expectations?
3. What did the late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai mean when she said, "The higher you go, the fewer women there are" (17)?
4. What is Adichie's stated reason for wanting to tip the young man who had watched her car in her absence?
5. What is Adichie's purpose in including the scene of her own interrogation by the guard at the Nigerian hotel?
6. What is Adichie's suggested solution to the problem of boys and girls seeing money as being linked to masculinity?
7. What does Adichie state would be the effects of people living their lives free of gender expectations?
8. What instructions does Adichie include within her list of lessons society teaches girls?
9. What example does Adichie provide for her statement that "sometimes it is the little things that sting the most" (21)?
10. What evidence does Adichie provide for her claim that "men and women are different" (16)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine the role of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s grandmother within the essay We Should All Be Feminists. How does the author use the role of her grandmother to highlight the themes within the overall narrative?
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 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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