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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Gifty opt to study at school because it seemed like “the hardest thing”?
(a) Biotechnology.
(b) Molecular medicine.
(c) Neurocular Biolgoy.
(d) Molecular biology.

2. Where was Nana’s soccer game in Chapter 15?
(a) Nashville.
(b) Boston.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Ghana.

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

4. Where is Gifty living when her mother comes to stay with her at the beginning of the novel?
(a) California.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Alabama.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gifty’s mother’s code name in her journal?

2. Whose party does Gifty attend with her grad school cohort?

3. In Chapter 16, Gifty compares the sunny day at the restaurant to the dreary days when she lived where?

4. What poet did Gifty study in her poetry class?

5. In the letters to God, who does impressions of The Black Mamba?

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