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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. What was Gifty’s hairstyle, of which her mother disapproved?

2. In Chapter 13, what evidence of her and her brother finding hidden food did Gifty’s mother find in the trash?

3. What did Gifty’s mother believe lived in her cousin’s apartment when she first moved to Alabama?

4. What teacher urged Gifty toward science?

5. Gifty suspected that her mother was jealous of Chin Chin’s relationship with whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Gifty’s mother found that she and Nana had gotten into the hidden food?

2. Despite not liking his poetry, what connection did Gifty feel with the poet they studied, Gerard Manley Hopkins, in one of her classes?

3. What did Gifty feel in freshman biology class where she says she first learned “what and where the vagina truly was” (133)?

4. What did Gifty’s Aunt point out to her in the market in Ghana in Chapter 1 and what did she say?

5. Though Gifty’s mother did not think they should have to purchase corn syrup for a school experiment, why was she upset when the teacher gave Gifty a bottle?

6. Describe the “intervention” (131) the church had on the young woman of the congregation.

7. What did Gifty ask her mother while she was putting on makeup to get ready for work, and how did her mother respond?

8. How does Gifty’s mother describe the Chin Chin man?

9. What events made Gifty feel that a “particular kind of shame had descended on [her] congregation” (131)?

10. In Chapter 2, who calls Gifty from Alabama and what does he tell her about her mother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Gifty’s relationship like with her father? Use examples from the text including her tone when speaking to or about him.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

In the end, Gifty ends up with Han. Analyze Han’s character and why you think Gifty is capable of a relationship with him.

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