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

2. Which word from a Bible verse, that had made Gifty find more importance in her journal writing, did Gifty later find meant something different that what she had thought?
(a) God.
(b) Word.
(c) Logos.
(d) Pathos.

3. What family member did Gifty stay with in Chapter 1?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her father.

4. Studying Gerard Manley Hopkins inspired Gifty to begin writing what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Flash fiction.
(c) Short stories.
(d) Letters to her mother.

5. What is DBS?
(a) Definitive Brain Science.
(b) Deep Brain Stimulation.
(c) Deep Barometric Systems.
(d) Developing Brain Science.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gifty feels she did not learn about her body until what class during her freshman year in college?

2. At what university is Gifty’s lab in Chapter 2?

3. What did Raymond ask Gifty to talk about so his friends could get to know her better?

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

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Gifty and Anne become good friends. Describe how Anne describes Gifty at the end Chapter 26.

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

3. How old was Gifty when she went to Ghana to stay with her aunt and why did she go?

4. What does Gifty’s mom think of mental illness?

5. In Chapter 2, who calls Gifty from Alabama and what does he tell her about her mother?

6. Why did Gifty not want to take creative writing in college even though many said it was an easy A?

7. What does Gifty’s mother ask in Chapter 6 after she finally eats her koko, and how does Gifty respond?

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

9. What did Gifty’s childhood nickname, asaa, mean?

10. Gifty said her mother noticed America changed around Big Black men. How did Gifty’s mother say her father’s behavior changed in response?

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