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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what university is Gifty’s lab in Chapter 2?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Stanford.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

2. What did Gifty get from mental health services to help with her depression?
(a) A therapist.
(b) Medication.
(c) Sleeping pills.
(d) A SAD lamp.

3. What food, a favorite from her childhood does Gifty try to feed her mother in the novel's present timeline?
(a) Fried Plantain.
(b) Bofrot.
(c) Fufu.
(d) Koko.

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

5. Gifty’s letter to God in Chapter 20 said that Buzz told her Christianity was what?
(a) Foolish.
(b) A cult.
(c) Strict.
(d) The only way.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gifty suspected that her mother was jealous of Chin Chin’s relationship with whom?

2. The two letters to God in Chapter 11 show Gifty’s fondness for whom?

3. As a child when Gifty’s pastor defined sin as “anything you think, do, or say that goes against God”(73) what did she wonder if you could control?

4. What did Nana say about soccer when the bus arrived in Chapter 15?

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

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