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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Gifty’s brother die?
(a) Heroin overdose.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Alcohol poisoning.
(d) Car crash.

2. What is Gifty studying at Stanford University School of Medicine?
(a) Flu vaccines.
(b) Neural circuits of reward-seeking behavior.
(c) Mother-daughter relationships.
(d) Sleeping medication.

3. What do they call Gifty’s father?
(a) Nana.
(b) The Black Mamba.
(c) Koko.
(d) The Chin Chin Man.

4. In Chapter 13, what evidence of her and her brother finding hidden food did Gifty’s mother find in the trash?
(a) A Granola wrapper.
(b) Apple rind.
(c) Orange peels.
(d) Soda bottle.

5. In Chapter 7, what did Gifty tell Geoffrey, her classmate, she really was?
(a) An actress.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A wizard.
(d) A princess.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the narrator’s childhood home?

3. In Chapter 8, Gifty said she never drank because she feared what?

4. In Chapter 13, what food did Gifty’s mother complain that Nan’s teammates wasted?

5. What was the name of the church Gifty’s mother attended when Gifty was young?

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