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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 did Gifty’s mother suggest she write letters to in Chapter 10?
(a) God.
(b) Nana.
(c) The Chin Chin Man.
(d) Her father.

2. What did Gifty’s mother believe lived in her cousin’s apartment when she first moved to Alabama?
(a) Her father.
(b) A ghost.
(c) A transient.
(d) Her great great grandmother.

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

4. What does Gifty apologize for when she and her mother arrive at her apartment?
(a) The small size.
(b) The bad cooking.
(c) The smell.
(d) The mess.

5. What did Nana’s doctor prescribe him after he injured himself during a basketball game at Ridgewood High?
(a) Steroids.
(b) OxyContin.
(c) Ibuprofen.
(d) Ambien.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 23, Gifty recalls flushing what down the toilet, which she was prescribed for strep throat?

3. What was Gifty’s hairstyle, of which her mother disapproved?

4. Whose party does Gifty attend with her grad school cohort?

5. Who did Gifty have call her mother in hopes to help improve her mood?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. What did Gifty’s classmate Geoffrey say when she told him she is really a princess?

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

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

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

10. What does Gifty’s mother ask in Chapter 6 after she finally eats her koko, and how does Gifty respond?

(see the answer keys)

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