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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. The author states that "the harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his" (26) what is?
2. The author relates the story of her friend who had felt slighted by her boss in a meeting and had wanted to challenge him, but had instead taken what action?
3. What does the author say is more important than changes to policy and law in the fight for gender equality?
4. The author states that society teaches girls to make themselves what?
5. What was the position of the man who stopped the author at the door of her Nigerian hotel?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Adichie characterize her feelings about her home country of Nigeria?
2. How does Adichie differentiate between positive competition between girls and negative competition between girls?
3. What is Adichie's suggested solution to the problem of boys and girls seeing money as being linked to masculinity?
4. What is Adichie's purpose in including the scene of her own interrogation by the guard at the Nigerian hotel?
5. How is the appeal of ethos present within Adichie's claim that she cannot go alone into bars and clubs in Nigeria?
6. How is the theme of language obscuring truth displayed within Adichie's mention of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act?
7. How does Adichie employ irony within her story of the woman who pretended to like housework?
8. What evidence does Adichie provide for her claim that "men and women are different" (16)?
9. What is Adichie's stated reason for wanting to tip the young man who had watched her car in her absence?
10. What did the late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai mean when she said, "The higher you go, the fewer women there are" (17)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine the role of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s grandmother within the essay We Should All Be Feminists. How does the author use the role of her grandmother to highlight the themes within the overall narrative?
Essay Topic 2
How does the author's use of the first and second person point of view serve her purposes over the course of the essay? Discuss how Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s choice of point of view helps to advance her treatment of at least three particular themes within the text.
Essay Topic 3
Examine Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s use of characterization methods to portray people within her life. What effect do these characterization methods have on the essay's inherent themes and messages?
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