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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 45, what does Gifty’s mother ask to hold?
(a) A mouse.
(b) Ensure.
(c) Her hand.
(d) The lever.

2. How many hours after Nana returned home from rehab did he relapse?
(a) 48.
(b) 2.
(c) 24.
(d) 14.

3. Who died at the beginning of Chapter 45, when Gifty was in the fifth grade?
(a) Aunt Joyce.
(b) Pastor John.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Mrs. Palmer.

4. What did Gifty’s mother use to try to kill herself?
(a) A knife.
(b) Ambien.
(c) Heroin.
(d) A Gun.

5. Gifty says that the community turned on Nana once his addiction became apparent. Who was among the crowd of those booing him at his final basketball game?
(a) The Chin Chin Man.
(b) Ryan Green.
(c) P.T.
(d) Pastor John.

6. Where was Gifty often the only church volunteer?
(a) The soup kitchen.
(b) The library.
(c) The fireworks stand.
(d) The nursing home.

7. What theory of child development is described in Chapter 45?
(a) Mahler’s Still Face experiment.
(b) Mahler’s individual separation.
(c) Deep Brain Stimulation.
(d) Mahler’s separation-individuation.

8. What did Gifty begin worrying about after she was saved?
(a) Sinning.
(b) Her grades slipping.
(c) God’s punishment.
(d) Her classmates' souls.

9. What does Gifty decided she wants to try in an effort to connect with her mice?
(a) Getting shocked.
(b) Ensure.
(c) Living in a cage.
(d) Being experimented on.

10. What did Ryan tell Gifty she should do instead of read books?
(a) Learn to sing.
(b) Play sports.
(c) Do her makeup.
(d) Learn to dance.

11. In Chapter 46, when Gifty drifts off in thought rather than doing her work, what place does she often dream of despite saying she does not enjoy it?
(a) Raymond’s house.
(b) The forest.
(c) Her apartment.
(d) The beach.

12. Who did Gfity feel Anne was always trying to get her to talk about?
(a) Nana.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The Chin Chin Man.

13. Gifty’s mother did not want to tell her doctors that her medication was not working because she did not want them to do what?
(a) Give her more medication.
(b) Send her to therapy.
(c) Take away her sleeping pills.
(d) Shock her.

14. What did Gifty’s most Ensure-addicted mouse develop in expectation of being shocked?
(a) A limp.
(b) Speed.
(c) A shaky foot.
(d) A cold.

15. Gifty says that her brother’s addiction became what in her church?
(a) A joke.
(b) Gossip.
(c) A secret.
(d) Shameful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sleep aid did Gifty’s mother begin to rely on after Nana's death, which Gifty says made her mean?

2. What does Gifty describe struggling with for a week during high school at the start of Chapter 49?

3. What story from the Book of John does Gifty often think about and find hard to believe?

4. At the start of Chapter 38, who does Gifty try to avoid at a sandwich shop?

5. When Gifty was in Ghana, her mother stopped doing what, but resumed going to church?

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