Reading Check and Short Answer questions on key plot points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

Reading Check

1. Who was the first person to call Adichie a feminist?

2. What words from the late Kenyan Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai does Adichie summarize?

3. What assumption was made about Adichie by the guard of a fancy Nigerian hotel?

4. Which English word does Adichie strongly dislike?

5. Fill in the blank of the following quote: “The language of marriage is often a language of __________, not a language of partnership.”

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. Summarize Adichie’s anecdote from primary school regarding the class monitor position. What is an aspect of the story’s outcome that Adichie finds interesting?

2. What realization did Adichie come to while visiting her friend Louis in Lagos?

3. How have Gendered Expectations changed throughout history? Link your answer with the transformation of the term “leader.”

4. Explain Adichie’s description of what it is like to be a woman in Lagos. How does this treatment make Adichie feel?

5. Explain Adichie’s comment on “bottom power” for women. Does she believe that this notion is true?