Danger of a Single Story and Two Kinds

Question 1

Impressionable

Answer 1

1: suggestible
2: malleable

Question 2

Conventional

Answer 2

1: Standard
2: Prosaic

Question 3

Domestic

Answer 3

1: family
2: local

Question 4

Rafia

Answer 4

1: Look at that Raffia!

Question 5

Patronize

Answer 5

1: humiliate
2: look down upon

Question 6

Incomprehensible

Answer 6

1: unintelligible
2: incoherent

Question 7

Rudyard Kipling

Answer 7

Your writing is almost that of Rudyard Kipling!

Question 8

Authenticity

Answer 8

1: genuineness
2: veracity

Question 9

Fleece

Answer 9

1: swindle
2: hood wink

Question 10

Abject

Answer 10

1: obsequious
2: groveling

Question 11

Dispossess`

Answer 11

1: deprive
2: dislodge

Question 12

Ration

Answer 12

1: portion
2:quantity

Question 13

Stereotypes

Answer 13

1: Cliche
2: stereotypical

Question 14

Nollywood

Answer 14

1: Look at his off brand Nollywood type clothes.

Question 15

Innovative

Answer 15

1: contemporary
2: ingenious

Question 16

Refurbishing

Answer 16

1: fix up
2: modernize

Question 17

Malign

Answer 17

1: Baleful
2: malevolent

Question 18

Shirley Temple

Answer 18

1: She looks like Shirley Temple

Question 19

Mission District

Answer 19

1: That’s our mission district

Question 20

Peter pan

Answer 20

1: He’s moving like Peter Pan

Question 21

Indignity

Answer 21

1: Shame
2: humiliation

Question 22

Reproach

Answer 22

1: rebuke
2: reproof

Question 23

Nairobi

Answer 23

1: capital of Kenya

Question 24

Jehoshaphat

Answer 24

1: King of Juda

Question 25

Foghorns

Answer 25

1: A horn used to warn ships of danger

Question 26

Ed Sullivan Show

Answer 26

1: and American T.V. program

Question 27

Mesmerize

Answer 27

1: enthrall
2: fascinate

Question 28

Beethoven

Answer 28

1: A dead music composer

Question 29

Reverie

Answer 29

1: daydream
2: trance

Question 30

Discordant

Answer 30

1: disagreeing
2: divergent