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  • 1. When was Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie born?
A) August 10, 1965
B) April 5, 1990
C) October 25, 1980
D) September 15, 1977
  • 2. In which country was Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie born?
A) Nigeria
B) South Africa
C) Ghana
D) Kenya
  • 3. What is the title of Adichie's debut novel?
A) Half of a Yellow Sun
B) We Should All Be Feminists
C) Purple Hibiscus
D) Americanah
  • 4. Which of Adichie's works was adapted into a movie starring Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor?
A) Half of a Yellow Sun
B) Americanah
C) We Should All Be Feminists
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) 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) Nigeria and the United States
B) France
C) Brazil
D) South Africa
  • 7. Which prestigious literary award did Adichie win for her novel 'Half of a Yellow Sun'?
A) Orange Prize for Fiction
B) Nobel Prize in Literature
C) Pulitzer Prize
D) Man Booker Prize
  • 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) 2012
C) 2017
D) 2015
  • 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) 19
B) 21
C) 30
D) 25
  • 12. Which university did Adichie attend first in the United States?
A) Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
B) Yale University
C) Johns Hopkins University
D) Harvard University
  • 13. What was Adichie's first published work?
A) Half of a Yellow Sun
B) Decisions, a poetry collection
C) Americanah
D) Purple Hibiscus
  • 14. Which Igbo author inspired Adichie's writing style?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Nadine Gordimer
C) Wole Soyinka
D) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  • 15. Which Ted Talk by Adichie was featured in Beyoncé's song?
A) "Why We Should Read More Books"
B) "We Should All Be Feminists"
C) "The Danger of a Single Story"
D) "The Power of Storytelling"
  • 16. In which year did Adichie receive the MacArthur Fellowship?
A) 2010
B) 2017
C) 2008
D) 2015
  • 17. Which university's commencement ceremony did Adichie speak at in 2018?
A) Columbia University
B) Harvard University
C) Princeton University
D) Yale 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) James Nwoye Adichie
B) Buchi Emecheta
C) Chinua Achebe
D) Wole Soyinka
  • 20. Which war had a significant impact on Adichie's childhood?
A) Nigerian Civil War
B) First Liberian Civil War
C) World War II
D) The Biafran War
  • 21. What was the title of Adichie's short story published in 2000?
A) "The Thing Around Your Neck"
B) "Purple Hibiscus"
C) "My Mother, the Crazy African"
D) "Half of a Yellow Sun"
  • 22. Which university did Adichie transfer to after Drexel University?
A) Princeton University
B) Yale University
C) Eastern Connecticut State University
D) Johns Hopkins University
  • 23. What was the name of Adichie's mother?
A) Chimamanda Ngozi
B) Grace Odigwe
C) Nadine Gordimer
D) Buchi Emecheta
  • 24. What was Adichie's major at Eastern Connecticut State University?
A) Communications
B) English Literature
C) Creative Writing
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 asked her to rewrite it as non-fiction.
C) They wanted a different title for the book.
D) They requested changing the setting from Africa to America.
  • 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) Wylie Agency
B) Algonquin Books
C) Pearson Morris and Belt Literary Management
D) Kachifo Limited
  • 28. In what year was Purple Hibiscus published in the United Kingdom?
A) 2003
B) 2004
C) 2006
D) 2005
  • 29. Which company published Purple Hibiscus in Nigeria?
A) Fourth Estate
B) Kachifo Limited
C) Algonquin Books
D) Wylie Agency
  • 30. Into how many languages has Purple Hibiscus been translated?
A) More than forty
B) Ten
C) Fifty
D) Twenty-five
  • 31. In which year was 'The Danger of a Single Story' TED Talk delivered by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie?
A) 2017
B) 2012
C) 2009
D) 2013
  • 32. What award did Adichie win in 2018 for the 'Wear Nigerian' campaign?
A) A Shorty Award.
B) A Grammy.
C) A Nobel Prize.
D) An Oscar.
  • 33. Who illustrated the children's edition of 'We Should All Be Feminists'?
A) Leire Salaberria
B) Joelle Avelino
C) Oliver De Coque
D) Nwankwo
  • 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) "The Church and Modern Society"
B) "Sognare come un'unica umanità" (Dreaming as a Single Humanity)
C) "Faith in Times of Conflict"
D) "Cultural Identity and Religion"
  • 37. How many children does Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie have?
A) Three
B) Four
C) Two
D) One
  • 38. 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"
  • 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) Economic disenfranchisement
C) Why Clinton's Twitter profile began with 'wife'
D) The Biafran conflict
  • 40. Which award did Adichie win for her book 'Dear Ijeawele' in 2017?
A) Le Grand Prix de l'Héroïne Madame Figaro
B) W. E. B. Du Bois Medal
C) PEN Pinter Prize
D) National Book Critics Circle Award
  • 41. Who described Adichie as 'Africa's preeminent storyteller'?
A) Daria Tunca
B) Izuu Nwankwọ
C) Ernest Emenyonu
D) Toyin Falola
  • 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) Nwankwo
B) Leire Salaberria
C) Oliver De Coque
D) Joelle Avelino
  • 44. In which year did Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie publish 'Zikora'?
A) 2020
B) 2023
C) 2021
D) 2019
  • 45. Which magazine did Obi-Young Otosirieze write a cover story about Adichie for in September 2021?
A) Brittle Paper
B) The Guardian
C) The New Yorker
D) Open Country Mag
  • 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) John F. Kennedy's 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech
C) Winston Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech
D) Franklin D. Roosevelt's 'Four Freedoms' speech
  • 47. What religion was Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie raised in?
A) Hinduism
B) Catholicism
C) Islam
D) Protestantism
  • 48. In which year did Adichie deliver the BBC's Reith Lectures?
A) 2024
B) 2021
C) 2022
D) 2023
  • 49. What was the name of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's father?
A) Not explicitly mentioned
B) Biyi Bandele
C) Enoch
D) Ivara Esege
  • 50. In what year was Adichie's novel Half of a Yellow Sun adapted into a film?
A) 2015
B) 2016
C) 2014
D) 2013
  • 51. In which year did Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie deliver her second annual Eudora Welty Lecture?
A) 2018
B) 2019
C) 2016
D) 2017
  • 52. Which city featured a mural including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in 2018?
A) Abuja
B) Kano
C) Lagos
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) Order of the Federal Republic
D) W. E. B. Du Bois Medal
  • 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) 978-0-593-80272-4
B) 978-1-4000-4416-0
C) 978-1-101-91176-1
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) Grieving My Father
C) Notes on Grief
D) A Father Remembered
  • 58. What is the ISBN for 'Half of a Yellow Sun'?
A) N/A
B) 978-1-101-91176-1
C) 978-0-593-80272-4
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) Connecting Cultures
B) We Should All Be Feminists
C) The Danger of a Single Story
D) Writer, Thinker, Feminist: Vignettes from Life
  • 60. Which magazine's editor did Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie debate on BBC Newsnight?
A) The New Yorker
B) Vogue
C) Time Magazine
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) Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina
C) South African author Nadine Gordimer
D) Nigerian singer Fela Kuti
  • 62. In which year was Adichie listed on The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" authors?
A) 2014
B) 2010
C) 2008
D) 2015
  • 63. Which project initiated by the Hay Festival selected Adichie in 2014?
A) W. E. B. Du Bois Medal
B) Africa39
C) PEN Pinter Prize
D) Barnard Medal of Distinction
  • 64. Which institution did Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie become the first African to speak at in 2019?
A) University of Michigan–Flint
B) Vanderbilt University
C) Yale University's Class Day
D) Johns Hopkins University
  • 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) Economic disenfranchisement
C) The Biafran conflict
D) Violence in Colombia
  • 67. Which event did Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speak at in Cartagena, Colombia in 2019?
A) Yale University's Class Day
B) Gabriel García Márquez Lecture
C) BBC Newsnight debate
D) Commonwealth Lecture
  • 68. Who directed the film adaptation of Adichie's novel Half of a Yellow Sun?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Toyin Falola
C) Luke Ndidi Okolo
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) 2020.
B) 2019.
C) 2018.
D) 2017.
  • 72. Which artist sampled parts of Adichie's TEDx Talk in the song 'Flawless'?
A) Beyoncé
B) Rihanna
C) Taylor Swift
D) Adele
  • 73. Who was cited by Adichie as her style idol?
A) Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
B) Maria Grazia Chiuri.
C) Michelle Obama.
D) Angela Merkel.
  • 74. Which book critic called Adichie's invented Igbo naming scheme an 'artform'?
A) Izuu Nwankwọ
B) Ernest Emenyonu
C) Daria Tunca
D) Toyin Falola
  • 75. Which foundation's symposium did Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speak at in 2019?
A) Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
B) Rockefeller 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) BBC World Service Short Story Competition
D) O. Henry Award
  • 77. Which publisher released the first edition of 'Americanah'?
A) Fourth Estate
B) Penguin Random House
C) Anchor Books
D) Alfred A. Knopf
  • 78. What is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's religious affiliation?
A) Muslim
B) Catholic
C) Hindu
D) Atheist
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