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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 1, where was Gifty staying while her mother healed?
2. The party Gifty recalls in Chapter 21 was for what group?
3. What does Gifty tell her dates she gets mice hooked on?
4. What was the name of the church Gifty’s mother attended when Gifty was young?
5. In Chapter 16, Gifty compares the sunny day at the restaurant to the dreary days when she lived where?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gifty’s mother ask in Chapter 6 after she finally eats her koko, and how does Gifty respond?
2. Describe Gifty’s final thesis experiment discussed in Chapter 14.
3. What is foreshadowed at the end of Chapter 24?
4. Why did Gifty’s mother want to move to America after Nana was born?
5. What did the study on schizophrenia, discussed in Chapter 24, discover?
6. In Chapter 7, what did Gifty tell her classmates about her grandfather?
7. What events made Gifty feel that a “particular kind of shame had descended on [her] congregation” (131)?
8. In Chapter 2, who calls Gifty from Alabama and what does he tell her about her mother?
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. Gifty and Anne become good friends. Describe how Anne describes Gifty at the end Chapter 26.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Transcendent Kingdom is written from Gifty’s point of view. Why did the author choose this? What would have changed had it been written from her mother, her father, or her brother’s point of view?
Essay Topic 2
What is the Still Face Experiment described in Chapter 10 and how did Gifty compare it to her relationship with her mother?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Gifty’s thoughts on her mother when she held the mouse in Chapter 45.
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