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

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

3. In Chapter 13, what food did Gifty’s mother complain that Nan’s teammates wasted?
(a) Chips.
(b) Apples.
(c) Juice.
(d) Oranges.

4. After seeing four other teenage girls from her church get pregnant Gifty felt a particular kind of what fell on her church?
(a) Misery.
(b) Gossip.
(c) Joy.
(d) Shame.

5. In Chapter 7, what did Gifty tell Geoffrey, her classmate, she really was?
(a) An actress.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A wizard.
(d) A princess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is DBS?

2. The study mentioned at the opening of Chapter 24 was on what mental illness?

3. Who did Gifty’s mother suggest she write letters to in Chapter 10?

4. What was the name of the church Gifty’s mother attended when Gifty was young?

5. When basketball took precedent over Nana’s church attendance, Gifty began going. The pastor ended every sermon asking who was ready to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Gifty’s final thesis experiment discussed in Chapter 14.

2. What do Gifty and Katherine have in common?

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. How does Gifty’s mother describe the Chin Chin man?

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

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