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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. Gifty overheard two ladies from church discussing her brother’s addiction and attributing it to what?
(a) His injury.
(b) His age.
(c) His size.
(d) His race.

2. Who did Gfity feel Anne was always trying to get her to talk about?
(a) Joyce.
(b) The Chin Chin Man.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Nana.

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

4. What does Gifty describe struggling with for a week during high school at the start of Chapter 49?
(a) Religion.
(b) Math.
(c) Nightmares.
(d) Science.

5. In Chapter 29, Gifty was at church when she decided it is time for what?
(a) To quit church.
(b) To call her mother.
(c) To be saved.
(d) To do her homework.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gifty says that her brother’s addiction became what in her church?

2. At the end of Chapter 32, when Gifty and her brother brought Nana home, what did their mother do to him?

3. At the end of the school nativity play, in which Gifty had one line, what did Nana do?

4. The morning after finding Nana passed out in the park, Gifty’s mother said she was sending him to what city to get help?

5. Where did the police officers say they found Nana dead of an overdose?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Describe the moment, which Gifty says is the closest thing her mother came to an apology to her children?

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

5. In Chapter 37, what does Gifty say is useless about her journal entries during Nana’s addiction?

6. 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?

7. Though they knew of Nana’s addiction, why did they feel so surprised when the police officers told them that he had died of an overdose?

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

9. How does Gifty celebrate that Han got published?

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

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