Lagos

Africa

India

Nigeria

part-time filmmaker

part-time school teacher

full-time university professor

full time writer

Africa

Nigeria

African

None of the above

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.