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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. What object does the author use as a metaphor for masculinity?

2. The author brings up the case of a woman she knows who hates what, but pretends to like it because it will make her "good wife material" (33)?

3. The author states that the most famous cooks in the world are given the "fancy title of" (33) what?

4. The author writes that "Anger has a long history of bringing about" (20) what?

5. In addition to being angry about the state of gender in today's world, what other emotion does the author say she feels about this topic?

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence does Adichie provide for her claim that "men and women are different" (16)?

2. What does Adichie judge to be the most severe negative effect society has on boys?

3. What is Adichie's suggested solution to the problem of boys and girls seeing money as being linked to masculinity?

4. What details about the city of Lagos does Adichie reveal within her comparison of the city to other world cities?

5. How does Adichie set up a juxtaposition between the role of leadership today and the role of leadership 1,000 years ago?

6. What effects does tAdichie list when discussing how society teaches girls to feel ashamed?

7. How is the appeal of ethos present within Adichie's claim that she cannot go alone into bars and clubs in Nigeria?

8. What example does Adichie provide for her claim that the city of Lagos has a thriving "entrepreneurial spirit" (16)?

9. How is the theme of language obscuring truth displayed within Adichie's mention of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act?

10. What is Adichie's stated reason for wanting to tip the young man who had watched her car in her absence?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the author's message regarding the actions people must take in order to combat societal sexism?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Choose a symbolic object from the essay We Should All Be Feminists, such as the lip gloss, the Indomie noodles, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text.

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