Ted Talk Single Story

Chimamanda Adichie comes from which country?

• Lagos

• Africa

• India

• Nigeria

Adichie is a

• part-time filmmaker

• part-time school teacher

• full-time university professor

• full time writer

Which continent does the author come from

• Africa

• Nigeria

• African

• None of the above

According to the speaker hearing or reading many negative stories about the continent of Africa

• encourages western donors to invest more in African children's education to save them from poverty

• flattens Africans' experiences and robs them dignity

• helps readers and spectators to have more understanding of African problems

• inspires change in Africans

What is the problem with a single story

• Single story creates stereotypes

• Stereotypes are not necessarily untrue, but they are always unfinished. They do not give a full picture of a people and their place.

• Telling one story over and over again about a people makes them feel vulnerable and powerless.

• All of the above

How did the speaker feel about Fede's family?

• She felt enormous pity

• She didn't feel anything towards his family

• She couldn't understand why he was poor although his family make beautiful things

• None of the above is true.

How did African books written by African writers help the author?

• Studying and reading literature written by African storytellers such as Chinua Achebe and Camera Laye helped expand Adichie's imagination and expose her to a more multifaceted world of literature. She also learned that people like her exist in books too, and thus began to appreciate the British and American books she has read.

• Discovering African books made the author despise western literature

• She suspended western books and began to focus more on African literature.

• None of the above is true.

Adichie argues that to get a full story of a people, it holds vital to

• engage wholly with the people's distinct narratives and their places

• confirm with westerners who have lived in that place

• ask the experts and the professors who know much about the place and the people

• interview the ambassadors and journalists who live in such a country

Which of the following describes the common single story for Africa?

• The inhabitants of Africa live exciting and luxurious lives.

• The inhabitants of Africa want to come to the United States.

• The inhabitants of Africa live diverse and full lives.

• The inhabitants of Africa are all disadvantaged in the same way.

What role does power play in constructing a single story?

• The people in power have the ability to ignore stories that they don’t agree with.

• The people in power cannot be influenced by the effect of a single story.

• The people in power tell the story that best suits their interest, and control its content and distribution.

• The people in power have no need to construct or spread single stories about others.