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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When basketball took precedent over Nana’s church attendance, Gifty began going. The pastor ended every sermon asking who was ready to do what?
(a) Give their life to Christ.
(b) Go home.
(c) Teach bible study.
(d) Become a pastor.

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

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

5. What was Gifty’s hairstyle, of which her mother disapproved?
(a) Afro.
(b) Dreadlocks.
(c) Pixie.
(d) Braids.

6. In Chapter 21, Gifty finds her mother doing what in her apartment?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Singing.
(d) Praying.

7. What Shakespearean play did Raymond’s colleague quote when Gifty was discussing her work?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Midsummer’s Night Dream.

8. What did Gifty learn that Raymond’s father was in Chapter 14?
(a) A police officer.
(b) A soccer coach.
(c) A preacher.
(d) A scientist.

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

10. What class did Gifty struggle in because of a lack of participation in a small group lab project?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Integrated Science.
(c) Biology.
(d) Creative Writing.

11. As practice for becoming a preacher’s wife as a child, who did Gifty pray for?
(a) Her friends' pets.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her brother.

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

13. 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?
(a) Pastor John’s sermons.
(b) God.
(c) Your thoughts.
(d) Your parents.

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

15. In Chapter 4, the letters to God asked if God was where? 

(a) Space.
(b) Heaven.
(c) At church.
(d) In her heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. The party Gifty recalls in Chapter 21 was for what group?

2. In Chapter 21, while Gifty’s mother is cooking plantains in oil, Gifty asks her if she remembered putting what on Nana’s foot?

3. Whose daughter’s pregnancy is discussed at the start of Chapter 26?

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

5. What does Gifty purchase to use to cook her mother Ghanaian food?

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