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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. Where did Gifty’s father go on the pretense he was visiting his brother?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Florida.
(c) Milwaukee.
(d) Ghana.
2. What does Gifty use as the “reward” for her mice during her experiments?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) Beer.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Ensure.
3. 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) Your thoughts.
(c) Your parents.
(d) God.
4. What family member did Gifty stay with in Chapter 1?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her father.
5. What was the name of the church Gifty’s mother attended when Gifty was young?
(a) First Africans of God Church.
(b) First Assemblies of God Church.
(c) Ghanaian Church of God.
(d) The Ghanaian Association.
Short Answer Questions
1. What nickname did Gifty’s mother give her as a child?
2. What book did Gifty purchase prior to her mother coming to stay with her?
3. In Chapter 16, Gifty has lunch with which colleague, who is half-hour late?
4. Who was Gifty’s boyfriend, who told her she could explain her work to him the hard way?
5. What did Gifty get from mental health services to help with her depression?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Why did Gifty’s mother want to move to America after Nana was born?
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. Gifty said her mother noticed America changed around Big Black men. How did Gifty’s mother say her father’s behavior changed in response?
7. What were some of the things, described in Chapter 8, that Gifty dreamed of being as a child?
8. Why did Gifty choose not to drink alcohol in high school?
9. Describe Gifty’s final thesis experiment discussed in Chapter 14.
10. In Chapter 7, what did Gifty tell her classmates about her grandfather?
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