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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 16, Gifty compares the sunny day at the restaurant to the dreary days when she lived where?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Ghana.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Alabama.

2. What did Raymond ask Gifty to talk about so his friends could get to know her better?
(a) Ghana.
(b) Religion.
(c) Her work.
(d) Her family.

3. What did Gifty’s mother believe lived in her cousin’s apartment when she first moved to Alabama?
(a) A ghost.
(b) Her father.
(c) A transient.
(d) Her great great grandmother.

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

5. Where is the narrator’s childhood home?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Ghana.
(d) California.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gifty get from mental health services to help with her depression?

2. Where is Gifty living when her mother comes to stay with her at the beginning of the novel?

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

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

5. What did Gifty need to buy for her Naked Egg experiment?

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