1. Gifty feels she did not learn about her body until what class during her freshman year in college?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Creative Writing.
(c) Integrated Science.
(d) Biology.

2. Who did Gifty have call her mother in hopes to help improve her mood?
(a) Pastor John.
(b) Nana.
(c) PT
(d) Her Father.

3. 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) Wax.
(b) Bandages.
(c) Hot oil.
(d) A nail.

4. Gifty suspected that her mother was jealous of Chin Chin’s relationship with whom?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Nana.
(c) Mr. Thomas.
(d) Pastor John.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word from a Bible verse, that had made Gifty find more importance in her journal writing, did Gifty later find meant something different that what she had thought?

2. What do they call Gifty’s father?

3. What class did Gifty struggle in because of a lack of participation in a small group lab project?

4. In Chapter 7, what did Gifty tell Geoffrey, her classmate, she really was?

5. Who is Gifty’s lab mate at Stanford?

(see the answer key)

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