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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 the name of the church Gifty’s mother attended when Gifty was young?
2. In Chapter 1, where was Gifty staying while her mother healed?
3. The two letters to God in Chapter 11 show Gifty’s fondness for whom?
4. In Chapter 18, what did Gifty’s mother tell her she needed to be in order to be baptized?
5. What was Gifty’s hairstyle, of which her mother disapproved?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do Gifty and Katherine have in common?
2. What does Gifty’s mom think of mental illness?
3. What is foreshadowed at the end of Chapter 24?
4. In Chapter 7, what did Gifty tell her classmates about her grandfather?
5. What did Gifty’s Aunt point out to her in the market in Ghana in Chapter 1 and what did she say?
6. What does Gifty say she learned after the incident at her brother’s soccer game during which the rival teams father yelled out a racial slur?
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. Describe Gifty’s final thesis experiment discussed in Chapter 14.
9. Gifty said her mother noticed America changed around Big Black men. How did Gifty’s mother say her father’s behavior changed in response?
10. Gifty and Anne become good friends. Describe how Anne describes Gifty at the end Chapter 26.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Giftys’ relationship with Katherine and how it changes over time. How is it different from her other relationships?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
What is Gifty’s relationship like with her father? Use examples from the text including her tone when speaking to or about him.
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