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

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

3. Where is Gifty living when her mother comes to stay with her at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Alabama.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) California.

4. How old was Gifty’s mother when she met her father?
(a) 35.
(b) 40.
(c) 30.
(d) 15.

5. What family member did Gifty stay with in Chapter 1?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Nana’s doctor prescribe him after he injured himself during a basketball game at Ridgewood High?

2. At the close of Chapter 26, what did Anne ask Gifty if she was?

3. What is Gifty’s brother's name?

4. Who is Gifty’s lab mate at Stanford?

5. In Chapter 18, what did Gifty’s mother tell her she needed to be in order to be baptized?

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

3. What is foreshadowed at the end of Chapter 24?

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

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

6. Why did Gifty’s mother want to move to America after Nana was born?

7. In Chapter 6, what did Gifty witness between her brother and mother when she was a young girl?

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

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

10. 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?

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