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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Adichie's first thought when her friend makes her request?
(a) Adichie feels that she is not capable of answering.
(b) Adichie does not know what to write.
(c) Adichie does not understand the question.
(d) Adichie wishes her friend would not ask this question.

2. Why does it matter what Ijeawele says to her child in Suggestion 6?
(a) Chizalum will use those same words later.
(b) Chizalum will learn what is most important.
(c) What Ijeawele say tells her what is good or bad.
(d) What Ijeawele say teaches Chizalum what she needs to value.

3. Toward the middle of Suggestion 1, Adichie identifies what trait as being important to motherhood?
(a) Being active in instilling feministic notions at an early age.
(b) Parenting equally with a partner.
(c) Always reaching for perfectionism.
(d) Giving oneself room to fail.

4. At the start of Suggestion 4, what does Adichie warn her friend about?
(a) Feminist Thought.
(b) Feminism Lite.
(c) Feminism Modesty.
(d) Feminist Opinion.

5. In Suggestion 6, what does Adichie ask Chizalum to question about men who have empathy for women?
(a) Chizalum should question men who only accept women who are beautiful rather than for what they do.
(b) Chizalum should question men who only see women as rational rather than individuals.
(c) Chizalum should question men who see women as objects and not people.
(d) Chizalum should question all men's motives when it comes to empathizing with women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Adichie warn her friend about this concept at the start of Suggestion 4?

2. How are boys' toys different from girls' in Suggestion 3?

3. Why does Adichie argue that women do not need to be championed or revered at the end of Suggestion 6?

4. What does Adichie decide to do as a response to Ijeawele's request in the Introduction?

5. What example does Adichie provide that bolster her notions of feminism in Suggestion 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the author argue against Feminism Lite?

2. Why is reading something Adichie suggests for Chizalum at the start of Suggestion 5?

3. At the end of Adichie's letter, what does she mean by, "Sometimes life just does its thing" (7)?

4. Why do Adichie reject the idea of saying that a woman is "doing it all" in Suggestion 1?

5. In Suggestion 1, how do people use tradition in relation to gender inequality?

6. Why does Adichie feel she might be qualified to respond to her friend's request in the Introduction?

7. In relation to toys in Suggestion 3, why is Adichie disturbed by a certain young girl's experience?

8. Why does Adichie recommend that Chizalum be paid for reading?

9. Why does Ijeawele need to choose her language when speaking with Chizalum?

10. How are powerful women "policed" in Adichie's mind (24)?

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