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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 most Ensure-addicted mouse develop in expectation of being shocked?
(a) A limp.
(b) Speed.
(c) A shaky foot.
(d) A cold.

2. Where did the police officers say they found Nana dead of an overdose?
(a) Starbucks parking lot.
(b) Chick-Fil-A.
(c) Walmart.
(d) School.

3. How long was Gifty in Ghana before she asked her aunt to see her father?
(a) 1 day.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 14 days.
(d) 4 weeks.

4. At the start of Chapter 38, who does Gifty try to avoid at a sandwich shop?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Raymond.
(c) Han.
(d) Katherine.

5. After Gifty overheard the gossiping ladies discuss her brother’s addiction, what did she hope he would do in order for all the church to see?
(a) Recover.
(b) Relapse.
(c) Play basketball again.
(d) Relocate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did a TA, Fred, give to Gifty, in what she suspected was an effort to keep her from going to his office so often with questions?

2. What sleep aid did Gifty’s mother begin to rely on after Nana's death, which Gifty says made her mean?

3. What does Gifty describe struggling with for a week during high school at the start of Chapter 49?

4. Gifty says that the community turned on Nana once his addiction became apparent. Who was among the crowd of those booing him at his final basketball game?

5. Who did Gifty begin talking to when she could not sleep in Chapter 49?

Short Essay Questions

1. At what point did Gifty’s mom suspect Nana’s addiction?

2. What conversation about Nana did GIfty overhear between her mother and father in Chapter 37?

3. In Chapter 28, how does Gifty describe how she would often find her brother after he began taking drugs?

4. How did Gifty feel when she saw her father in his home in Ghana?

5. In Chapter 49, after Gifty could not sleep for a week and her mother found her up in the night watching T.V., who did Gifty tell her mother she talked to and how did her mother react?

6. When Gifty told a college friend about her brother’s addiction and overdose, how did the friend respond?

7. In Chapter 38, how does Gifty respond when Katherine asks her why she got into her field of study?

8. When Nana was withdrawing at home in Chapter 31, how did their mother treat him?

9. What did Ryan Green tell Gifty about her constant reading?

10. After Nana’s relapse following rehab, Gifty says she “went quiet and [her] mother went insane” (171). How did her mother behave in church that made Gifty feel she had gone insane?

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