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Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following had the greatest influence on Adichie early in her life?
A) Trips to visit local villages
B) Reading British and American stories
C) Her cousins and playmates
D) Her parents’ professions
2. Which of the following things does Adichie make an important connection between?
A) Her roommate’s response to Adichie’s life and her response to Fide’s life
C) Fide’s poverty and her own lack of bread and jam
D) Education in Nigeria and education in America
D) Her childhood writing efforts and her adult writing successes
3. What does Adichie emphasize with her references to John Lok and Rudyard Kipling?
A) The wisdom of Western culture
B) The impact of published materials
C) The danger of stereotypes
D) The consequences of personal experiences
4. Which word best describes Adichie’s tone in the speech?
A) Accepting
B) Resentful
C) Critical
D) Empathetic
5. Which of the following literary devices is demonstrated in Adichie’s use of American Psycho to respond to the stereotype of Nigerian men?
A) Metaphor
B) Irony
C) Symbolism
D) Oxymoron
6. Which statement offers the best interpretation of Adichie’s statement that “the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete”?
A) Stereotypes are the first step in building empathy.
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