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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 does Katherine begin bringing Gifty after Gifty told her about her mother’s depression?
(a) Baked goods.
(b) Wine.
(c) Books.
(d) Dinner.

2. 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?
(a) Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience.
(b) Pathological Foundations of Neuroscience.
(c) Professional Foundations of Neuroscience.
(d) Philosophical Foundations of Nuclear Science.

3. Gifty says that her brother’s addiction became what in her church?
(a) Gossip.
(b) A joke.
(c) Shameful.
(d) A secret.

4. What did Gifty’s mother use to try to kill herself?
(a) A Gun.
(b) Ambien.
(c) A knife.
(d) Heroin.

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) Relocate.
(b) Play basketball again.
(c) Relapse.
(d) Recover.

Short Answer Questions

1. What helps Gifty get out of a speeding ticket in Chapter 28?

2. Which young member of their church, though a friend of Nana, did Gifty dislike?

3. Gifty overheard two ladies from church discussing her brother’s addiction and attributing it to what?

4. In Chapter 36, Gifty reflects on the fact that growing up, and even in college, she heard or learned little of what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Gifty notice about her mother at Mrs. Palmer’s funeral?

3. When Gifty was saved in Chapter 29, she felt sorry for the souls of her classmate until she discovered what?

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

5. Describe the state Gifty finds her mother after coming home thinking that she was better because she did not find her in bed.

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

7. How did Gifty’s feelings for Pastor John change after he visited them after Nana dies?

8. What did Gifty’s brother say about the girl who made fun of her Walmart clothes that makes Gfity feel better even though she knows he should not have said it?

9. 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?

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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