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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. In Suggestion 13, what does Adichie say we teach girls but not boys about love?

2. What are some skills to teach Chizalum about inequality and privilege?

3. What does Suggestion 11 say about biology in relation to gender roles?

4. What is one argument that Adichie makes about the difficulty for women to have to change their names after marriage?

5. What is the shame we attach to female sexuality truly about, according to Suggestion 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why should Chizalum not universalize her own standards and expectations concerning difference?

2. What was the sexuality seminar about mentioned at the start of Suggestion 12?

3. Why does Adichie think that schooling will not teach Chizalum all that she needs to know?

4. What parts of Igbo tradition should Chizalum reject to better shape an identity?

5. As stated in Suggestion 13, why does Ijeawele need to know about the romance in Chizalum's life?

6. What are some examples in Suggestion 11 where biology is used for/against gender expectation?

7. What is insinuated when a woman claims not to be feminist according to Adichie in Suggestion 14?

8. Why would Adichie support Chizalum wearing make-up and fashion as mentioned in Suggestion 10?

9. Why does Adichie recommend Chizalum not be taught to be non-judgmental at the end of Suggestion 15?

10. What is so upsetting to Adichie at the start of Suggestion 8, because of the pressure to be liked?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Authors purposefully choose to structure their texts to provide their ideas and themes in an engaging and thorough manner. Adichie chooses to structure her text in letter format. Why do you believe Adichie chose to separate her ideas into a Letter containing Suggestions and how does that help her get her message across?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the text refers to the powerfulness of language in raising a feminist daughter; she even gives it an entire Suggestion in her text. As first discussed in Suggestion, 3, and in correlation with clothing and toy decisions, Adichie highlights some of the main interpretations of language that condition children at a young age to understand their genders in particular ways. What are some of these words and phrases and how do instill gender assumptions?

Essay Topic 3

At the start of Suggestion 12, Adichie broaches the matter of sex. She describes a seminar that Ijeawele and she attended a long time ago and the overall feeling it left them with. What is the main reasons she inserts this experience?

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