The Author
Where did the author grow up?
What is Nigeria?/What is on campus where her father and mother worked?
What is a stereotype?
What is a false belief/oversimplified and fixed idea about a particular type of person or thing.
What were all the characters like in the books Adichie used to read and what did they do?
What is they were white and blue-eyed and ate apples/played in the snow/talked about the weather?
Stereotype
What is a generalized belief or idea about a group of people?
What types of children's books did the author read?
What is British and American children's books?
Give one example of how the author stereotyped someone.
What is when she visited Fide's village and saw how they actually lived?
Why was the author's roommate shocked by her?
What is because she didn't know Africans could speak English/listen to regular music/assumed she didn't know how to use a stove?
Diversity
What is the presence of a range of different types of people and viewpoints in a group?
How old was the author when she went to the US to study?
What is 19?
What can stereotyping lead to?
What is misinformation/hatred/racism
What made the author have a "single story" about Mexico?
What is because she had been so immersed in the media coverage of Mexicans/they had become the abject immigrant?
What is a tendency to favor one thing or person over others?
Why did the author feel bad when she went to Mexico?
What is she had bought into the single story of Mexicans due to her misconceptions about them.
According to the author, stereotypes are problematic not because they are false, but because they are _____?
What is incomplete?
What is because she discovered African authors/realised that people like her can exist in literature?
Prejudice
What is a preconceived opinion not based on reason or experience?