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