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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 does Adichie recommend in Suggestion 6 for Ijeawele to do in order to teach Chizalum about language?
(a) Chizalum will need to question her own language first.
(b) Chizalum will have to learn both her native language and English.
(c) Chizalum will have to listen to others' language more than her own.
(d) Chizalum will have to study language and each word's various meanings.

2. What does Adichie say about her views on feminism to Ijeawele at the start of her Letter?
(a) Feminism is contextual.
(b) Feminism is exciting and powerful.
(c) Feminism is for women only.
(d) Feminism is for both genders.

3. How will Ijeawele know that child-care work is being equally shared?
(a) True equality will exist and hatred toward one another will not be an issue.
(b) A strong relationship will grow, and the child will naturally be raised by both parents.
(c) True equality will exist and resentment does not.
(d) Love will blossom and both parents will feel whole.

4. Suggestion 3 presents what overarching idea at the start?
(a) The idea that parenting is not related to gender roles.
(b) The idea that gender inequality historically is becoming better and more equal.
(c) The idea that gender roles serve a certain purpose at times.
(d) The idea that gender roles are absolute nonsense.

5. Why is it true progress when a woman does not clap after a man cooks a meal according to Suggestion 6?
(a) When she claps, she is giving unnecessary praise.
(b) Her clapping gives the man the impression that he is good at something that he is not.
(c) Her clapping tells the man that she loves him for his cooking.
(d) When she claps, this implies that cooking is an inherently female act.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do both Adichie and Ijeawele agree to do in regards to the Suggestions?

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

3. What is a phase that Adichie associates with the notion that caregiving and domestic work are singularly female domains?

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

5. How does Adichie feel about Sanders' advice?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does it mean to not define oneself solely by motherhood?

3. What specific example does Adichie provide in Suggestion 3 that conveys how gender roles are nonsense?

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

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

6. Adichie states that she hears women say, "Leave the woman alone to do what she wants as long as her husband allows" (22). Why does Adichie argue against this statement?

7. At the end of the letter, Adichie consolidates her overall purpose to Ijeawele by asking her to do only one thing. What is this thing and why is it important?

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

9. Why does the reference in Suggestion 4 about Theresa May showcase Feminism Lite?

10. Why does Adichie reject the language of help?

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