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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 took poetry rather than what class to fulfill her humanities requirement?
2. In Chapter 12, who spoke ill of Mr. Thomas at his funeral?
3. What did Nana’s doctor prescribe him after he injured himself during a basketball game at Ridgewood High?
4. What school did Gifty attend in Massachusetts?
5. In Chapter 16, Gifty compares the sunny day at the restaurant to the dreary days when she lived where?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 2, who calls Gifty from Alabama and what does he tell her about her mother?
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’s Aunt point out to her in the market in Ghana in Chapter 1 and what did she say?
4. What fact does Gifty mention at the end of Chapter 3 that she and her mother “ignore” (11)?
5. Why did Gifty choose not to drink alcohol in high school?
6. What did Gifty’s classmate Geoffrey say when she told him she is really a princess?
7. What does Gifty’s mother ask in Chapter 6 after she finally eats her koko, and how does Gifty respond?
8. What did Gifty feel in freshman biology class where she says she first learned “what and where the vagina truly was” (133)?
9. Why did Gifty’s mother want to move to America after Nana was born?
10. Describe Gifty’s final thesis experiment discussed in Chapter 14.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What theme does the work Gifty does and the mice she works with represent in Transcendent Kingdom?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the moment when Gifty is saved in Chapter 29 and 30. Discuss what was happening in her life at the time.
Essay Topic 3
In the end, Gifty is with Han, running a lab in Princeton, and living close enough to a church that she can hear Church bells on Sunday. What does this ending represent about the progression of Gifty’s character?
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