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