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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Suggestions 10 - 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Suggestion 11 say about biology in relation to gender roles?
(a) Biology enforces a greater gender gap, and it makes women feel empowered.
(b) Biology can be used as reasons as justification for social norms.
(c) Biology provides many reasons as to why women and men act the way they do.
(d) Biology can convince men they are superior to women.

2. Because of the previous recommendations in Suggestion 3, Adichie asks that Chizalum be given what?
(a) To learn how to fight misogyny.
(b) To be a subservient woman.
(c) To battle gender roles.
(d) To be seen as an individual.

3. Who else should Chizalum be surrounded by aside from a village of Aunties?
(a) A village of grandmothers.
(b) A village of smart women.
(c) A village of uncles.
(d) A village of small children.

4. What does Adichie introduce as a true Igbo tradition in Suggestion 1?
(a) The mother working and raising the children.
(b) The mother staying home.
(c) The father working and the mother staying at home.
(d) A double-income family.

5. What is a phase that Adichie associates with the notion that caregiving and domestic work are singularly female domains?
(a) "Gender neutrality."
(b) "Asking for help."
(c) "Doing it all."
(d) "Motherhood is more important than work."

Short Answer Questions

1. What should women not be apologetic about as recommended in Suggestion 10?

2. What does Adichie recommend in Suggestion 6 for Ijeawele to do in order to teach Chizalum about language?

3. At the start of Suggestion 5, why should Ijeawele teach Chizalum to read?

4. What is the global-middle class phenomenon of "parenting" in accordance with Suggestion 1?

5. How should Chizalum feel about being active, according to Adichie in Suggestion 10?

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