The Danger of a Single Story
___________________ gave a TED Talk on "The Danger of a Single Story" in July 2009.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Sight, Sound, Taste, Smell, Touch
Gabe and his Oma came from which religion?
Judaism
Both the excerpt from "In the Dream House" and the essay "I Go Back To Berryman's are written in the ___________________ point of view.
second person
The narrator's new husband thinks the food at the Mexican restaurant on the side of the parkway must be _______.
terrible
The author of this essay grew up on a university campus in Eastern _________ .
Nigeria
The narrator finds herself crying in H-Mart because ___________.
she misses her mother, who has recently passed away
What tone did Gabe convey throughout his essay that we spoke about in class?
Conversational, humorous, and/or vulnerable.
True or False: When writing creative nonfiction about your own experiences and memories, you allowed to make some things up.
True
The person sitting in the back of the car in this story is the narrator's ____________.
ex-husband
As a child, the narrator began to write stories about ________ , _________ - eyed characters only.
white, blue-eyed
Name the literary device used for the repeated "s" sounds in this sentence: "It reminds me of who [my mom and aunt] were before: beautiful and full of life, wiggling Chang Gu honey-cracker rings on all ten of their ngers, showing me how to suck a Korean grape from its skin and spit out the seeds."
Alliteration
Gabriel Stein-Bodenheimer dreamed what would grant him the freedom to physically transition from genderqueer boi to full-fledged man?
His Oma's death
In "The Heart-Work: Writing About Trauma as a Subversive Act," writer Melissa Febos cites a study which found that participants who wrote about a past trauma for 15 minutes on four consecutive days made significantly (more/fewer) visits to physicians over the subsequent year compared to a control group that wrote objectively about neutral topics.
Fewer
This short nonfiction fiction piece is an example of "The __________________ Moment," or finding meaning in the mundane.
Enormous Small
What is the connection between the young narrator's view of the houseboy Fide, and the roommate's view of the narrator later in life?
Both were views of a single story. The narrator initially saw the houseboy Fide as poor and pitiful, and the narrator's roommate had a single story of what it meant to be African.
Michele Zauner, author of Crying in H-Mart, attended _______________ College for undergrad.
Bryn Mawr
How did Oma finally find out about Gabe's transition?
She saw an article in the newspaper (Los Angeles Times).
The excerpt from Carmen Maria Machado's memoir is broken up into chapters or sections that are all begin with the same three words: "_________ __________ _________..."
Dream House as
This essay is written in the _____________ point of view.
third person
It's impossible to talk about the single story without talking about ____________.
power
The narrator explains that the 'H' in "H-Mart" stands for the Korean phrase han ah reum, which rough translates to "______________________".
What surprised Gabe the most by the end of the essay?
In the section of In the Dream House where Machado writes about Halloween, the narrator is dressed as a _____________?
Weeping Angel (character from Doctor Who)
______________ wrote "I Ate There Once".
Abigail Thomas