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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Suggestions 1 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Adichie's concern around young girl's experience with sports?
(a) Adichie fears that girls do not reach higher levels of sports because of their upbringings.
(b) Adichie considers how this lack of physical activity affects future health for young girls.
(c) Adichie worries that girls have parts of themselves silenced and stifled, because sports are male activities.
(d) Adichie wonders if girls should not play sports, because they are too dangerous.

2. In the Introduction, what does Adichie say makes her feel like an expert in a field?
(a) Adichie has had researched the subject for many hours.
(b) Adichie speaks with other experts about it.
(c) Adichie has spoken publicly about it.
(d) Adichie teaches the subject.

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

4. What is the one activity that Ijeawele's husband, Chudi, cannot participate in while raising their child?
(a) Chudi cannot cook the meals.
(b) Chudi cannot help clean the house.
(c) Chudi cannot coddle the baby when she cries.
(d) Chudi cannot breastfeed.

5. How old is Ijeawele's daughter when Adichie writes her letter?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 6 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Adichie propose Ijeawele teach her daughter to overcome all the issues presented in Suggestion 3?

2. Toward the middle of Suggestion 1, Adichie identifies what trait as being important to motherhood?

3. Adichie recommends that Chizalum be measured on what type of scale according to the ideologies of Suggestion 3?

4. At the end of Suggestion 2, praise for fathers it put into question. Why does Adichie believe this is an important concept to be analyzed?

5. What is a fear that Adichie recognizes that mothers have about fathers in Suggestion 2?

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