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