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

2. What class did Gifty struggle in because of a lack of participation in a small group lab project?
(a) Integrated Science.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Creative Writing.
(d) Biology.

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

4. At the party described in Chapter 21, Gifty, Nana, and the other children threw what food at one another?
(a) Bofrot.
(b) Mashed potatoes.
(c) Koko.
(d) Plantains.

5. What teacher urged Gifty toward science?
(a) Mrs. Paternack.
(b) Mr. Cline.
(c) Mrs. Pastornack.
(d) Ms. Thomas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname did Gifty’s mother give her as a child?

2. At the start of Chapter 27, Gifty says that Nana did what all year long?

3. What did Gifty and her aunt try to sell in the market in Ghana?

4. How old was Gifty’s mother when she met her father?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What fact does Gifty mention at the end of Chapter 3 that she and her mother “ignore” (11)?

5. What does Gifty’s mom think of mental illness?

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

7. What does Gifty say she learned after the incident at her brother’s soccer game during which the rival teams father yelled out a racial slur?

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

10. In Chapter 25, when Gifty begins reading the Bible since her mother will not touch it, what does she notice that she did not notice as a child?

(see the answer keys)

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