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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 13, what did Gifty refuse to eat for three days before her mother threatened her with a switch?
(a) Tomatoes.
(b) Candy.
(c) Koko.
(d) Onions.

2. How did Gifty’s brother die?
(a) Heroin overdose.
(b) Alcohol poisoning.
(c) Car crash.
(d) Cancer.

3. 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) Go home.
(b) Teach bible study.
(c) Become a pastor.
(d) Give their life to Christ.

4. How did Gifty, Nana, and their mother get home from Nashville?
(a) Greyhound bus.
(b) Lyft.
(c) Uber.
(d) Airplane.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What nickname did Gifty’s mother give her as a child?

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

5. In Chapter 21, Gifty finds her mother doing what in her apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is foreshadowed at the end of Chapter 24?

2. What happened when Gifty’s mother found that she and Nana had gotten into the hidden food?

3. Why did Gifty’s mother want to move to America after Nana was born?

4. Despite not liking his poetry, what connection did Gifty feel with the poet they studied, Gerard Manley Hopkins, in one of her classes?

5. In Chapter 7, what did Gifty tell her classmates about her grandfather?

6. How does Gifty describe the way her mother changed depending on the language she spoke?

7. Describe the “intervention” (131) the church had on the young woman of the congregation.

8. What were some of the things, described in Chapter 8, that Gifty dreamed of being as a child?

9. Why did Gifty choose not to drink alcohol in high school?

10. In Chapter 25, when Gifty begins reading the Bible since her mother will not touch it, what does she notice that she did not notice as a child?

(see the answer keys)

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