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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 26-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the participants in the author's writing workshop had been told by a friend not to do what?
(a) To talk to the author after the end of the workshop.
(b) To tell her husband about her enrollment in the workshop.
(c) To listen to the author's feminist ideas.
(d) To share her personal feelings with the author.

2. Because the author had not known what the word feminist meant the first time it was applied to her, she planned to do what the moment she arrived home?
(a) Look up the word in the dictionary.
(b) Ask her brother the meaning of the word.
(c) Ask her mother the meaning of the word.
(d) Look up the word in the encyclopedia.

3. The author points out that women can perform what action, while men cannot?
(a) Menstruate.
(b) Have babies.
(c) Experience multiple orgasms.
(d) Feed their children.

4. The man who advised the author not to call herself a feminist confided in her that people were saying her novel was what?
(a) Feminist.
(b) Sexist.
(c) Preachy.
(d) Misogynistic.

5. The author insists that in modern society, "we stifle the" (26) what of boys?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Vulnerability.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Playfulness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author describe the town in which she attended primary school?

2. The author states that society teaches a woman at a certain age who is still what, to see it as "a deep personal failure" (29)?

3. The author says that the first time she was called a feminist, the speaker's tone had been the same tone a person would use to accuse someone of being a what?

4. What did the man in Lagos say when receiving his tip?

5. Though the author grants that boys and girls are different biologically, she claims that what practice "exaggerates the differences" (33)?

(see the answer key)

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