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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. Gifty’s letter to God in Chapter 20 said that Buzz told her Christianity was what?

2. In Chapter 16, Gifty has lunch with which colleague, who is half-hour late?

3. What did Nana’s doctor prescribe him after he injured himself during a basketball game at Ridgewood High?

4. The study mentioned at the opening of Chapter 24 was on what mental illness?

5. Who did Gifty have call her mother in hopes to help improve her mood?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Gifty’s mother want to move to America after Nana was born?

3. Describe Gifty’s final thesis experiment discussed in Chapter 14.

4. What do Gifty and Katherine have in common?

5. Why did Gifty not want to take creative writing in college even though many said it was an easy A?

6. What does Gifty’s mother ask in Chapter 6 after she finally eats her koko, and how does Gifty respond?

7. What did the study on schizophrenia, discussed in Chapter 24, discover?

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write and essay on what Nana’s relationship to sports might represent in relation to his relationship with his father.

Essay Topic 2

Gifty thinks a lot of her relationship with Raymond though it was short lived and ended years ago. What does she think of and why do you think these memories stay with her?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the moment when Gifty is saved in Chapter 29 and 30. Discuss what was happening in her life at the time.

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