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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 is Gifty’s brother's name?
(a) Raymond.
(b) Han.
(c) Nana.
(d) Thomas.

2. In Chapter 23, Gifty recalls flushing what down the toilet, which she was prescribed for strep throat?
(a) Hydrochloride.
(b) Hydrocodone.
(c) Ambien.
(d) OxyContin.

3. The receptionist at mental health services asked Gifty if she would like to speak to whom?
(a) Her advisor.
(b) A counselor.
(c) A teacher.
(d) Her mother.

4. What basketball game were Gifty and Nana playing when he told her he did not care what his father thought?
(a) Around the world.
(b) Knockout.
(c) Tag.
(d) HORSE.

5. Gifty took poetry rather than what class to fulfill her humanities requirement?
(a) Reading 101.
(b) Rhetorical Theory.
(c) Film.
(d) Creative Writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 21, Gifty finds her mother doing what in her apartment?

2. What is Gifty studying at Stanford University School of Medicine?

3. What does Gifty apologize for when she and her mother arrive at her apartment?

4. Where is the narrator’s childhood home?

5. How did Gifty, Nana, and their mother get home from Nashville?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. Why did Gifty’s mother want to move to America after Nana was born?

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

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

10. What events made Gifty feel that a “particular kind of shame had descended on [her] congregation” (131)?

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