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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. Whose daughter’s pregnancy is discussed at the start of Chapter 26?

2. At the close of Chapter 26, what did Anne ask Gifty if she was?

3. In Chapter 18, what did Gifty’s mother tell her she needed to be in order to be baptized?

4. What was the name of the church Gifty’s mother attended when Gifty was young?

5. Whose party does Gifty attend with her grad school cohort?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Gifty said her mother noticed America changed around Big Black men. How did Gifty’s mother say her father’s behavior changed in response?

4. How old was Gifty when she went to Ghana to stay with her aunt and why did she go?

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

6. In Chapter 6, what did Gifty witness between her brother and mother when she was a young girl?

7. How does Gifty describe the way her mother changed depending on the language she spoke?

8. How did Gifty’s mother react in Nashville when Nana said he no longer wanted to play soccer?

9. In Chapter 7, what did Gifty tell her classmates about her grandfather?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mental illness, addiction, and depression are themes in the novel. Analyze how the author uses her characters to develop these themes.

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

Gifty says that growing up she rarely heard the word racism and learned little of it even in college. What were some moments of racism throughout Transcendent Kingdom?

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