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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. What was the name of the church Gifty’s mother attended when Gifty was young?
(a) First Assemblies of God Church.
(b) First Africans of God Church.
(c) Ghanaian Church of God.
(d) The Ghanaian Association.

2. After Gifty’s brother was born in Ghana, who wanted to move to America?
(a) Pastor John.
(b) Gifty.
(c) Gifty’s father.
(d) Gifty’s mother.

3. In Chapter 16, Gifty has lunch with which colleague, who is half-hour late?
(a) Kim.
(b) Han.
(c) Karen.
(d) Katherine.

4. 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) Your parents.
(b) Pastor John’s sermons.
(c) God.
(d) Your thoughts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Gifty’s hairstyle, of which her mother disapproved?

2. What did Nana’s doctor prescribe him after he injured himself during a basketball game at Ridgewood High?

3. In Chapter 22, Gifty tells Han a story of how her brother wanted what to help him improve his basketball game?

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

5. What poet did Gifty study in her poetry class?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Gifty feel in freshman biology class where she says she first learned “what and where the vagina truly was” (133)?

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

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

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

5. How did Gifty’s mother react in Nashville when Nana said he no longer wanted to play soccer?

6. Though Gifty’s mother did not think they should have to purchase corn syrup for a school experiment, why was she upset when the teacher gave Gifty a bottle?

7. What did Gifty’s classmate Geoffrey say when she told him she is really a princess?

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

9. In Chapter 6, what did Gifty witness between her brother and mother when she was a young girl?

10. What did the study on schizophrenia, discussed in Chapter 24, discover?

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