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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. How did Gifty, Nana, and their mother get home from Nashville?
2. In the letters to God, who does impressions of The Black Mamba?
3. What school did Gifty attend in Massachusetts?
4. In Chapter 7, what did Gifty tell Geoffrey, her classmate, she really was?
5. What nickname did Gifty’s mother give her as a child?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 7, what did Gifty tell her classmates about her grandfather?
2. What did Gifty ask her mother while she was putting on makeup to get ready for work, and how did her mother respond?
3. What fact does Gifty mention at the end of Chapter 3 that she and her mother “ignore” (11)?
4. Gifty said her mother noticed America changed around Big Black men. How did Gifty’s mother say her father’s behavior changed in response?
5. What did the study on schizophrenia, discussed in Chapter 24, discover?
6. Despite not liking his poetry, what connection did Gifty feel with the poet they studied, Gerard Manley Hopkins, in one of her classes?
7. What happened when Gifty’s mother found that she and Nana had gotten into the hidden food?
8. In Chapter 25, when Gifty begins reading the Bible since her mother will not touch it, what does she notice that she did not notice as a child?
9. Gifty and Anne become good friends. Describe how Anne describes Gifty at the end Chapter 26.
10. How did Gifty’s mother react in Nashville when Nana said he no longer wanted to play soccer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the end, Gifty ends up with Han. Analyze Han’s character and why you think Gifty is capable of a relationship with him.
Essay Topic 2
Gifty experiences several emotional changes throughout Transcendent Kingdom. In what ways does she change? What about her remains the same? Does her process reflect healing? If so, how?
Essay Topic 3
Chapter 19 describes a moment when Gifty begins thinking more deeply about faith. Describe Pastor Tom (P.T.) and his part in this moment for Gifty.
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