Q1. What is a stereotype? Include the definition, examples, anecdotes, and feelings towards the topic.
Q2. What is prejudice? Include the definition, examples, anecdotes, and feelings towards the topic.
Q3. What was surprising about the stories that Adichie wrote as a child? Why did she write them this way?
Q4. Why was Adichie surprised that Fide's family could create art?
Q5. Why does Adichie blame Western literature for the single story of Africa?
Q6. Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the ___________ __________.
Q7. Why didn't Adichie have a single story of America?
Q8. "All of these stories make me who I am. But to insist on only these negative stories is to_______________ my experience and to overlook the many other stories that formed me. The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are ____________. They make one story become the only story."
Q9. Adichie talks about the idea of having a balance of stories. What are some examples she gives of stories that would have created this balance?
Q10. Write about a situation in which you fell victim to a single story. This could either be a situation when you had a single story of another person, group of people, or place or someone had such a single story about you. How could having a balance of stories have changed the situation?