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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 28 - 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did Gifty purchase prior to her mother coming to stay with her?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Transcendent Kingdom.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Homeward Bound.

2. The party Gifty recalls in Chapter 21 was for what group?
(a) The Ghana Association.
(b) The First Assemblies of God Church.
(c) The soccer team.
(d) The basketball team.

3. Gifty took poetry rather than what class to fulfill her humanities requirement?
(a) Rhetorical Theory.
(b) Film.
(c) Creative Writing.
(d) Reading 101.

4. In Chapter 21, while Gifty’s mother is cooking plantains in oil, Gifty asks her if she remembered putting what on Nana’s foot?
(a) Hot oil.
(b) A nail.
(c) Bandages.
(d) Wax.

5. What poet did Gifty study in her poetry class?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Edgar Allen Poe.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Gifty’s father go on the pretense he was visiting his brother?

2. What does Gifty use as the “reward” for her mice during her experiments?

3. What type of thinking does Gifty say in Chapter 25 that P.T. was trying to protect the church from?

4. Who did Gifty’s mother suggest she write letters to in Chapter 10?

5. What food, a favorite from her childhood does Gifty try to feed her mother in the novel's present timeline?

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