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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 store did Gifty’s father get frequently accused of stealing from while in American?
(a) Costco.
(b) Safeway.
(c) Publix.
(d) Walmart.

2. In Chapter 12, who spoke ill of Mr. Thomas at his funeral?
(a) Gifty.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Nana.
(d) His daughter.

3. In Chapter 16, Gifty has lunch with which colleague, who is half-hour late?
(a) Katherine.
(b) Karen.
(c) Kim.
(d) Han.

4. Who is Gifty’s lab mate at Stanford?
(a) Katherine.
(b) Raymond.
(c) Steven.
(d) Han.

5. In Chapter 22, Gifty tells Han a story of how her brother wanted what to help him improve his basketball game?
(a) Longer arms.
(b) Longer legs.
(c) Bigger muscles.
(d) Bionic legs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What teacher urged Gifty toward science?

2. Gifty’s letter to God in Chapter 20 said that Buzz told her Christianity was what?

3. What do they call Gifty’s father?

4. The party Gifty recalls in Chapter 21 was for what group?

5. In Chapter 13, what did Gifty refuse to eat for three days before her mother threatened her with a switch?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Gifty feel in freshman biology class where she says she first learned “what and where the vagina truly was” (133)?

5. What did the study on schizophrenia, discussed in Chapter 24, discover?

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

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

8. Gifty said her mother noticed America changed around Big Black men. How did Gifty’s mother say her father’s behavior changed in response?

9. How old was Gifty when she went to Ghana to stay with her aunt and why did she go?

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

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