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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The receptionist at mental health services asked Gifty if she would like to speak to whom?
(a) Her advisor.
(b) Her mother.
(c) A counselor.
(d) A teacher.

2. What did Gifty need to buy for her Naked Egg experiment?
(a) Eggs.
(b) Maple Syrup.
(c) Corn syrup.
(d) Vinegar.

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

4. What school did Gifty attend in Massachusetts?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Yale.
(d) Boston University.

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

6. In Chapter 6, in her office, Gifty reads a journal entry about the time her brother went where?
(a) Prom.
(b) Rehab.
(c) School.
(d) Soccer playoffs.

7. What does Gifty use as the “reward” for her mice during her experiments?
(a) Beer.
(b) Ensure.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Chocolate.

8. What does Gifty purchase to use to cook her mother Ghanaian food?
(a) A deep fryer.
(b) An oven.
(c) A microwave.
(d) A blender.

9. Gifty took poetry rather than what class to fulfill her humanities requirement?
(a) Rhetorical Theory.
(b) Film.
(c) Creative Writing.
(d) Reading 101.

10. Who is Gifty’s lab mate at Stanford?
(a) Steven.
(b) Raymond.
(c) Katherine.
(d) Han.

11. What did Gifty’s father say people in Ghana had in “abundance” despite being poor?
(a) Fruit.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Health.
(d) Happiness.

12. In Chapter 22, Gifty tells Han a story of how her brother wanted what to help him improve his basketball game?
(a) Longer legs.
(b) Bionic legs.
(c) Longer arms.
(d) Bigger muscles.

13. The study mentioned at the opening of Chapter 24 was on what mental illness?
(a) Bipolar.
(b) Depression.
(c) Narcissism.
(d) Schizophrenia.

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

15. In Chapter 26, Gifty describes when she and other young, female church members were taken to a warehouse to be taught about what?
(a) Marriage.
(b) The birds and the bees.
(c) Anatomy.
(d) Abstinence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gifty apologize for when she and her mother arrive at her apartment?

2. In Chapter 22, Han finds Gifty attaching what to her mice’s implants?

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

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

5. After Mr. Thomas funeral, Gifty’s mother made her father pull the car over so she could do what after hearing someone speak ill of the dead?

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