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