Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Exam
  • 1. When was Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie born?
A) September 15, 1977
B) August 10, 1965
C) April 5, 1990
D) October 25, 1980
  • 2. In which country was Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie born?
A) Nigeria
B) Kenya
C) South Africa
D) Ghana
  • 3. What is the title of Adichie's debut novel?
A) Americanah
B) Half of a Yellow Sun
C) We Should All Be Feminists
D) Purple Hibiscus
  • 4. Which of Adichie's works was adapted into a movie starring Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor?
A) Americanah
B) We Should All Be Feminists
C) Half of a Yellow Sun
D) Purple Hibiscus
  • 5. What is the name of Adichie's short story collection that was published in 2009?
A) This Is How You Lose Her
B) Interpreter of Maladies
C) The Thing Around Your Neck
D) Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
  • 6. What is the setting of Adichie's novel 'Americanah'?
A) Brazil
B) France
C) Nigeria and the United States
D) South Africa
  • 7. Which prestigious literary award did Adichie win for her novel 'Half of a Yellow Sun'?
A) Nobel Prize in Literature
B) Man Booker Prize
C) Orange Prize for Fiction
D) Pulitzer Prize
  • 8. Which of Adichie's novels explores themes of race, identity, and the immigrant experience in America?
A) We Should All Be Feminists
B) Purple Hibiscus
C) Americanah
D) Half of a Yellow Sun
  • 9. In which year was Adichie named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine?
A) 2012
B) 2015
C) 2017
D) 2008
  • 10. In which Nigerian city was Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie born?
A) Kano
B) Lagos
C) Enugu
D) Abuja
  • 11. At what age did Adichie move to the United States for her studies?
A) 25
B) 19
C) 30
D) 21
  • 12. Which university did Adichie attend first in the United States?
A) Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
B) Johns Hopkins University
C) Harvard University
D) Yale University
  • 13. What was Adichie's first published work?
A) Decisions, a poetry collection
B) Purple Hibiscus
C) Half of a Yellow Sun
D) Americanah
  • 14. Which Igbo author inspired Adichie's writing style?
A) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
B) Wole Soyinka
C) Chinua Achebe
D) Nadine Gordimer
  • 15. Which Ted Talk by Adichie was featured in Beyoncé's song?
A) "We Should All Be Feminists"
B) "Why We Should Read More Books"
C) "The Power of Storytelling"
D) "The Danger of a Single Story"
  • 16. In which year did Adichie receive the MacArthur Fellowship?
A) 2015
B) 2010
C) 2008
D) 2017
  • 17. Which university's commencement ceremony did Adichie speak at in 2018?
A) Harvard University
B) Yale University
C) Princeton University
D) Columbia University
  • 18. What was Adichie's original English name at birth?
A) Ngozi
B) Amanda
C) Chimamanda
D) Grace
  • 19. What was the name of Adichie's father?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Wole Soyinka
C) Buchi Emecheta
D) James Nwoye Adichie
  • 20. Which war had a significant impact on Adichie's childhood?
A) World War II
B) Nigerian Civil War
C) First Liberian Civil War
D) The Biafran War
  • 21. What was the title of Adichie's short story published in 2000?
A) "Purple Hibiscus"
B) "Half of a Yellow Sun"
C) "The Thing Around Your Neck"
D) "My Mother, the Crazy African"
  • 22. Which university did Adichie transfer to after Drexel University?
A) Eastern Connecticut State University
B) Yale University
C) Princeton University
D) Johns Hopkins University
  • 23. What was the name of Adichie's mother?
A) Buchi Emecheta
B) Grace Odigwe
C) Chimamanda Ngozi
D) Nadine Gordimer
  • 24. What was Adichie's major at Eastern Connecticut State University?
A) Political Science
B) English Literature
C) Creative Writing
D) Communications
  • 25. What challenge did literary agents initially present to Adichie regarding her manuscript?
A) They asked her to rewrite it as non-fiction.
B) They wanted a different title for the book.
C) They requested changing the setting from Africa to America.
D) They suggested focusing on European themes.
  • 26. Who was the literary agent that accepted Adichie's manuscript?
A) Fourth Estate
B) Sarah Chalfant
C) Djana Pearson Morris
D) Pearson Morris and Belt Literary Management
  • 27. Which company first published Purple Hibiscus in the United States?
A) Wylie Agency
B) Pearson Morris and Belt Literary Management
C) Kachifo Limited
D) Algonquin Books
  • 28. In what year was Purple Hibiscus published in the United Kingdom?
A) 2005
B) 2003
C) 2006
D) 2004
  • 29. Which company published Purple Hibiscus in Nigeria?
A) Fourth Estate
B) Wylie Agency
C) Algonquin Books
D) Kachifo Limited
  • 30. Into how many languages has Purple Hibiscus been translated?
A) Fifty
B) Ten
C) More than forty
D) Twenty-five
  • 31. In which year was 'The Danger of a Single Story' TED Talk delivered by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie?
A) 2009
B) 2017
C) 2013
D) 2012
  • 32. What award did Adichie win in 2018 for the 'Wear Nigerian' campaign?
A) An Oscar.
B) A Shorty Award.
C) A Grammy.
D) A Nobel Prize.
  • 33. Who illustrated the children's edition of 'We Should All Be Feminists'?
A) Oliver De Coque
B) Leire Salaberria
C) Nwankwo
D) Joelle Avelino
  • 34. What theme is central to Adichie's works according to a 2011 conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina?
A) Identity
B) Colonialism
C) Love
D) War
  • 35. What is the title of Adichie's novel published in 2025?
A) Dream Count
B) Counting Stars
C) African Dream
D) Feminist Dreams
  • 36. What title was given to Adichie's article published in L'Osservatore Romano?
A) "Sognare come un'unica umanità" (Dreaming as a Single Humanity)
B) "The Church and Modern Society"
C) "Faith in Times of Conflict"
D) "Cultural Identity and Religion"
  • 37. How many children does Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie have?
A) Two
B) Three
C) One
D) Four
  • 38. Which story from 'The Thing Around Your Neck' was included in The Best American Short Stories 2011?
A) "Ceiling"
B) "The American Embassy"
C) "You in America"
D) "That Harmattan Morning"
  • 39. What was the focus of media attention after Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's speech with Hillary Clinton at PEN World Voices Festival?
A) Violence in Colombia
B) The Biafran conflict
C) Why Clinton's Twitter profile began with 'wife'
D) Economic disenfranchisement
  • 40. Which award did Adichie win for her book 'Dear Ijeawele' in 2017?
A) Le Grand Prix de l'Héroïne Madame Figaro
B) National Book Critics Circle Award
C) PEN Pinter Prize
D) W. E. B. Du Bois Medal
  • 41. Who described Adichie as 'Africa's preeminent storyteller'?
A) Daria Tunca
B) Ernest Emenyonu
C) Toyin Falola
D) Izuu Nwankwọ
  • 42. 'We Should All Be Feminists' was published in which year?
A) 2017
B) 2009
C) 2014
D) 2021
  • 43. Which illustrator worked on 'Mama's Sleeping Scarf'?
A) Joelle Avelino
B) Oliver De Coque
C) Leire Salaberria
D) Nwankwo
  • 44. In which year did Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie publish 'Zikora'?
A) 2019
B) 2021
C) 2020
D) 2023
  • 45. Which magazine did Obi-Young Otosirieze write a cover story about Adichie for in September 2021?
A) The New Yorker
B) Open Country Mag
C) Brittle Paper
D) The Guardian
  • 46. Which speech inspired Adichie's first of the BBC's 2022 Reith Lectures?
A) Winston Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech
B) John F. Kennedy's 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech
C) Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech
D) Franklin D. Roosevelt's 'Four Freedoms' speech
  • 47. What religion was Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie raised in?
A) Protestantism
B) Hinduism
C) Islam
D) Catholicism
  • 48. In which year did Adichie deliver the BBC's Reith Lectures?
A) 2023
B) 2022
C) 2021
D) 2024
  • 49. What was the name of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's father?
A) Biyi Bandele
B) Enoch
C) Not explicitly mentioned
D) Ivara Esege
  • 50. In what year was Adichie's novel Half of a Yellow Sun adapted into a film?
A) 2015
B) 2014
C) 2016
D) 2013
  • 51. In which year did Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie deliver her second annual Eudora Welty Lecture?
A) 2019
B) 2018
C) 2017
D) 2016
  • 52. Which city featured a mural including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in 2018?
A) Lagos
B) Madrid
C) Abuja
D) Kano
  • 53. In which year was 'Dream Count' published?
A) 2013
B) 2014
C) 2025
D) 2006
  • 54. What title was Adichie honored with by her hometown in December 2022?
A) PEN Pinter Prize
B) W. E. B. Du Bois Medal
C) Order of the Federal Republic
D) "Odeluwa"
  • 55. 'Purple Hibiscus' was published by which publisher?
A) Anchor Books
B) Alfred A. Knopf
C) Penguin Random House
D) Fourth Estate
  • 56. What is the ISBN for 'We Should All Be Feminists'?
A) N/A
B) 978-1-101-91176-1
C) 978-1-4000-4416-0
D) 978-0-593-80272-4
  • 57. What is the title of the essay Adichie expanded into a book after her father's death?
A) Reflections on Loss
B) Grieving My Father
C) Notes on Grief
D) A Father Remembered
  • 58. What is the ISBN for 'Half of a Yellow Sun'?
A) 978-0-593-80272-4
B) N/A
C) 978-1-101-91176-1
D) 978-1-4000-4416-0
  • 59. What was the title of the lecture Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered at the Guildhall in London on 15 March 2012?
A) The Danger of a Single Story
B) We Should All Be Feminists
C) Writer, Thinker, Feminist: Vignettes from Life
D) Connecting Cultures
  • 60. Which magazine's editor did Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie debate on BBC Newsnight?
A) The American Spectator
B) The New Yorker
C) Time Magazine
D) Vogue
  • 61. Who was a close friend of Adichie that publicly came out in 2014?
A) South African author Nadine Gordimer
B) Nigerian singer Fela Kuti
C) Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina
D) Ghanaian poet Ama Ata Aidoo
  • 62. In which year was Adichie listed on The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" authors?
A) 2008
B) 2014
C) 2010
D) 2015
  • 63. Which project initiated by the Hay Festival selected Adichie in 2014?
A) Barnard Medal of Distinction
B) Africa39
C) PEN Pinter Prize
D) W. E. B. Du Bois Medal
  • 64. Which institution did Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie become the first African to speak at in 2019?
A) Yale University's Class Day
B) Vanderbilt University
C) University of Michigan–Flint
D) Johns Hopkins University
  • 65. Which award did Adichie receive from Harvard University in 2022?
A) W. E. B. Du Bois Medal
B) MacArthur Fellowship
C) Barnard Medal of Distinction
D) PEN Pinter Prize
  • 66. What did Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discuss at the Frankfurt Book Fair?
A) Violence in Colombia
B) The Biafran conflict
C) Breaking cycles which silence women's voices
D) Economic disenfranchisement
  • 67. Which event did Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speak at in Cartagena, Colombia in 2019?
A) Gabriel García Márquez Lecture
B) Yale University's Class Day
C) Commonwealth Lecture
D) BBC Newsnight debate
  • 68. Who directed the film adaptation of Adichie's novel Half of a Yellow Sun?
A) Toyin Falola
B) Biyi Bandele
C) Luke Ndidi Okolo
D) Chinua Achebe
  • 69. In 'Purple Hibiscus', what does the name Ọlanna literally mean?
A) 'Golden Child'
B) 'Precious One'
C) 'Divine Light'
D) 'God's Gold'
  • 70. In which year did Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie publish 'Half of a Yellow Sun'?
A) 2013
B) 2025
C) 2009
D) 2006
  • 71. In what year was Adichie selected to appear on the cover of British Vogue, guest-edited by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex?
A) 2020.
B) 2019.
C) 2017.
D) 2018.
  • 72. Which artist sampled parts of Adichie's TEDx Talk in the song 'Flawless'?
A) Adele
B) Taylor Swift
C) Beyoncé
D) Rihanna
  • 73. Who was cited by Adichie as her style idol?
A) Angela Merkel.
B) Michelle Obama.
C) Maria Grazia Chiuri.
D) Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
  • 74. Which book critic called Adichie's invented Igbo naming scheme an 'artform'?
A) Daria Tunca
B) Ernest Emenyonu
C) Izuu Nwankwọ
D) Toyin Falola
  • 75. Which foundation's symposium did Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speak at in 2019?
A) Ford Foundation
B) Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
C) Rockefeller Foundation
D) MacArthur Foundation
  • 76. Which award did Adichie's story 'That Harmattan Morning' win?
A) BBC World Service Short Story Competition
B) David T. Wong International Short Story Prize
C) Caine Prize for African Writing
D) O. Henry Award
  • 77. Which publisher released the first edition of 'Americanah'?
A) Anchor Books
B) Alfred A. Knopf
C) Fourth Estate
D) Penguin Random House
  • 78. What is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's religious affiliation?
A) Muslim
B) Hindu
C) Atheist
D) Catholic
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