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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. Who is Gifty’s lab mate at Stanford?
(a) Raymond.
(b) Katherine.
(c) Han.
(d) Steven.
2. Where did Gifty’s dad work as a janitor?.
(a) A grocery store.
(b) A daycare.
(c) A college.
(d) A restaurant.
3. What poet did Gifty study in her poetry class?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(d) Edgar Allen Poe.
4. At the close of Chapter 26, what did Anne ask Gifty if she was?
(a) Tired.
(b) Going to kiss her.
(c) Religious.
(d) A virgin.
5. What was Gifty’s hairstyle, of which her mother disapproved?
(a) Pixie.
(b) Braids.
(c) Dreadlocks.
(d) Afro.
Short Answer Questions
1. After seeing four other teenage girls from her church get pregnant Gifty felt a particular kind of what fell on her church?
2. What class did Gifty struggle in because of a lack of participation in a small group lab project?
3. In Chapter 6, in her office, Gifty reads a journal entry about the time her brother went where?
4. Who did Gifty’s mother suggest she write letters to in Chapter 10?
5. In the letters to God, who does impressions of The Black Mamba?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is foreshadowed at the end of Chapter 24?
2. What do Gifty and Katherine have in common?
3. Gifty said her mother noticed America changed around Big Black men. How did Gifty’s mother say her father’s behavior changed in response?
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. How does Gifty’s mother describe the Chin Chin man?
6. How old was Gifty when she went to Ghana to stay with her aunt and why did she go?
7. Why did Gifty not want to take creative writing in college even though many said it was an easy A?
8. Despite not liking his poetry, what connection did Gifty feel with the poet they studied, Gerard Manley Hopkins, in one of her classes?
9. What did Gifty’s Aunt point out to her in the market in Ghana in Chapter 1 and what did she say?
10. What does Gifty’s mother ask in Chapter 6 after she finally eats her koko, and how does Gifty respond?
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