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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. In Gifty’s college poetry class, a student asked if it was possible to analyze Hopkins without discussing his religion and what?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Biology.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Poetry.

2. Where was Gifty often the only church volunteer?
(a) The library.
(b) The nursing home.
(c) The soup kitchen.
(d) The fireworks stand.

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

4. After Gifty stopped speaking to Anne, for how long did Anne try to text Gifty before giving up?
(a) 2 days.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 2 months.

5. After picking Nana up from rehab, at what restaurant did he assure Gifty and her mother that he wanted to stay clean?
(a) Burger King.
(b) McDonalds.
(c) Taco Bell.
(d) Chick-fil-A.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gifty mother ask Gifty about the mice she experiments on?

2. What did Gifty buy for her brother at the Publix in hopes of helping out of his sleepy state?

3. During the fight that Gifty discusses in Chapter 37, what did her mother say while he tried to ram the door open?

4. How did Gifty feel about the Ghanaian clothing she was made to wear at Nana’s funeral?

5. Where did Gifty find her mother after searching the house when she came home to find she was not in bed in Chapter 40?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. What does Gifty’s mother tell her on the stretcher that Gifty did not know before?

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

7. 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?

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

9. How does Gifty celebrate that Han got published?

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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