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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. As practice for becoming a preacher’s wife as a child, who did Gifty pray for?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her friends' pets.

2. At the close of Chapter 26, what did Anne ask Gifty if she was?
(a) A virgin.
(b) Tired.
(c) Going to kiss her.
(d) Religious.

3. In Chapter 6, in her office, Gifty reads a journal entry about the time her brother went where?
(a) School.
(b) Rehab.
(c) Prom.
(d) Soccer playoffs.

4. What is the scripture that Gifty says gave her trouble in Chapter 10?
(a) Rejoice always, pray without ceasing.
(b) Pray always, rejoice without ceasing.
(c) Cease rejoicing and always pray.
(d) Love always, cease rejoicing.

5. The study mentioned at the opening of Chapter 24 was on what mental illness?
(a) Narcissism.
(b) Bipolar.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Gifty’s boyfriend, who told her she could explain her work to him the hard way?

2. Where did Gifty’s father go on the pretense he was visiting his brother?

3. What did Gifty’s father say people in Ghana had in “abundance” despite being poor?

4. What food, a favorite from her childhood does Gifty try to feed her mother in the novel's present timeline?

5. Who does Buzz refer to in Gifty’s journal?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Gifty and Anne become good friends. Describe how Anne describes Gifty at the end Chapter 26.

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

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

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

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

7. Why did Gifty choose not to drink alcohol in high school?

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

9. 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?

10. Describe the “intervention” (131) the church had on the young woman of the congregation.

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