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- 1. Multiple Choice
Chimamanda Adichie comes from which country?
Lagos
Africa
India
Nigeria
- 2. Multiple Choice
Adichie is a
part-time filmmaker
part-time school teacher
full-time university professor
full time writer
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which continent does the author come from
Africa
Nigeria
African
None of the above
- 4. Multiple Choice
According to the speaker hearing or reading many negative stories about the continent of Africa
encourages western donors to invest more in African children's education to save them from poverty
flattens Africans' experiences and robs them dignity
helps readers and spectators to have more understanding of African problems
inspires change in Africans
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is the problem with a single story
Single story creates stereotypes
Stereotypes are not necessarily untrue, but they are always unfinished. They do not give a full picture of a people and their place.
Telling one story over and over again about a people makes them feel vulnerable and powerless.
All of the above
- 6. Multiple Choice
How did the speaker feel about Fede's family?
She felt enormous pity
She didn't feel anything towards his family
She couldn't understand why he was poor although his family make beautiful things
None of the above is true.
- 7. Multiple Choice
How did African books written by African writers help the author?
Studying and reading literature written by African storytellers such as Chinua Achebe and Camera Laye helped expand Adichie's imagination and expose her to a more multifaceted world of literature. She also learned that people like her exist in books too, and thus began to appreciate the British and American books she has read.
Discovering African books made the author despise western literature
She suspended western books and began to focus more on African literature.
None of the above is true.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Adichie argues that to get a full story of a people, it holds vital to
engage wholly with the people's distinct narratives and their places
confirm with westerners who have lived in that place
ask the experts and the professors who know much about the place and the people
interview the ambassadors and journalists who live in such a country
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which of the following describes the common single story for Africa?
The inhabitants of Africa live exciting and luxurious lives.
The inhabitants of Africa want to come to the United States.
The inhabitants of Africa live diverse and full lives.
The inhabitants of Africa are all disadvantaged in the same way.
- 10. Multiple Choice
What role does power play in constructing a single story?
The people in power have the ability to ignore stories that they don’t agree with.
The people in power cannot be influenced by the effect of a single story.
The people in power tell the story that best suits their interest, and control its content and distribution.
The people in power have no need to construct or spread single stories about others.
- 11. Multiple Choice
What does Adichie believe a better version of storytelling looks like?
She believes that it includes several stories that focus on the positives.
She believes that it includes several different stories from different perspectives.
She believes that stories need to be more widely available in order to improve.
She doesn’t believe storytelling needs to change, but rather the way people respond to stories.
- 12. Multiple Choice
What is the effect of knowing the full story?
You have a richer and more complete understanding of other people and places.
You realize that different people and places aren’t so different.
You will stop viewing yourself and your culture as superior to others.
You will realize that what you once thought was true was a complete lie.
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which of the following illustrates the central idea of the text?
By only exposing ourselves to a single story, we run the risk of constructing overly-simplistic understandings of other people and places.
By only reading a single story, we cheat ourselves of experiencing different cultures from different perspectives.
By only reading a single story, we rob ourselves of encountering different cultures of ranging views.
Literature particularly shapes the mind of children, while adults are less likely to construct their views of the world based on a single story.
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which of the following describes Adichie as a child?She was encouraged to learn about Western culture.She was strongly impacted by Western culture.She was uninterested in Nigerian culture.She was unhealthily obsessed with Western culture. - 15. Multiple ChoiceHow did reading books by African writers affect Adichie?It exposed her to different stories, specifically ones she could relate to.It made her grateful for the American and British stories she grew up with.It made her grateful for the American and British stories she grew up with.It encouraged her to write about characters from a variety of cultures.It made her realize how relatively few African writers there were.
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the effect of knowing the full story?You have a richer and more complete understanding of other people and places.You realize that different people and places aren’t so different. Everyone is the same.You will stop viewing yourself and your culture as superior to others.You will realize that what you once thought was true was a complete lie.
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