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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. At the start of Chapter 27, Gifty says that Nana did what all year long?
(a) Skipped School.
(b) Played basketball.
(c) Slept.
(d) Made fun of Gifty.

2. What is Gifty’s mother’s code name in her journal?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Koko.
(c) The Black Mamba.
(d) Nana.

3. What is Gifty studying at Stanford University School of Medicine?
(a) Mother-daughter relationships.
(b) Neural circuits of reward-seeking behavior.
(c) Flu vaccines.
(d) Sleeping medication.

4. In Chapter 13, what evidence of her and her brother finding hidden food did Gifty’s mother find in the trash?
(a) A Granola wrapper.
(b) Apple rind.
(c) Orange peels.
(d) Soda bottle.

5. What does Gifty apologize for when she and her mother arrive at her apartment?
(a) The smell.
(b) The bad cooking.
(c) The mess.
(d) The small size.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. As practice for becoming a preacher’s wife as a child, who did Gifty pray for?

4. In Chapter 22, Han finds Gifty attaching what to her mice’s implants?

5. In Chapter 4, the letters to God asked if God was where? 


Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did Gifty ask her mother while she was putting on makeup to get ready for work, and how did her mother respond?

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

7. What did Gifty’s Aunt point out to her in the market in Ghana in Chapter 1 and what did she say?

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

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

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

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