The Danger of a Single Story

The Danger of a Single Story: What does Adichie suggest is the solution to the danger of a single story?

• Rejecting all stories

• Embracing a single, positive story

• Acknowledging the existence of many stories

• Ignoring stories altogether

The Danger of a Single Story: What did Adichie read as a child?

• African folktales

• British and American children's books

• Nigerian newspapers

• Russian novels

The Danger of a Single Story: How did Adichie's American roommate view her before meeting her?

• With respect and admiration

• With fear and suspicion

• With patronizing pity

• With indifference and apathy

The Danger of a Single Story: What was Adichie's initial impression of Fide's family?

• They were skilled craftsmen

• They were generous and kind

• They were poor and pitiable

• They were proud and dignified

The Danger of a Single Story: According to Adichie, what is the consequence of a single story?

• It creates a balanced understanding

• It promotes diversity and inclusion

• It reduces people to a single, incomplete perspective

• It fosters empathy and connection

The Danger of a Single Story: What did Adichie realize about her own attitude towards Mexicans?

• She had believed the single story about them

• She had always been unbiased towards them

• She had never heard any stories about them

• She had a deep understanding of their culture

The Danger of a Single Story: What changed Adichie's perception of literature?

• Moving to the United States

• Discovering books by African authors

• Meeting her American roommate

• Visiting Mexico

The Danger of a Single Story: What does Adichie say we regain when we reject the single story?

• A sense of superiority

• A kind of paradise

• A feeling of isolation

• A state of ignorance

The Danger of a Single Story: How can stories be used, according to Adichie?

• Only to empower and humanize

• Only to dispossess and malign

• Both to dispossess and to empower

• Neither to dispossess nor to empower

The Danger of a Single Story: Why did Adichie's characters in her childhood writing resemble the characters in the books she read?

• She admired the foreign characters

• She had limited exposure to other types of characters

• She believed books had to have foreign characters

• Both b and c