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

2. Where did Gifty’s father go on the pretense he was visiting his brother?
(a) Milwaukee.
(b) Florida.
(c) Ghana.
(d) Alabama.

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

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

5. What does Gifty tell her dates she gets mice hooked on?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Vitamins.
(c) OxyContin.
(d) Cocaine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Gifty’s lab mate at Stanford?

2. In Chapter 13, what food did Gifty’s mother complain that Nan’s teammates wasted?

3. In the letters to God, who does impressions of The Black Mamba?

4. In Chapter 12, who spoke ill of Mr. Thomas at his funeral?

5. What class did Gifty struggle in because of a lack of participation in a small group lab project?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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