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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. Studying Gerard Manley Hopkins inspired Gifty to begin writing what?
2. In Chapter 13, what food did Gifty’s mother complain that Nan’s teammates wasted?
3. What basketball game were Gifty and Nana playing when he told her he did not care what his father thought?
4. Gifty took poetry rather than what class to fulfill her humanities requirement?
5. In Chapter 22, Han finds Gifty attaching what to her mice’s implants?
Short Essay Questions
1. What fact does Gifty mention at the end of Chapter 3 that she and her mother “ignore” (11)?
2. 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?
3. What does Gifty’s mother ask in Chapter 6 after she finally eats her koko, and how does Gifty respond?
4. Why did Gifty not want to take creative writing in college even though many said it was an easy A?
5. What did Gifty’s classmate Geoffrey say when she told him she is really a princess?
6. In Chapter 6, what did Gifty witness between her brother and mother when she was a young girl?
7. How did Gifty’s mother react in Nashville when Nana said he no longer wanted to play soccer?
8. 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?
9. What does Gifty’s mom think of mental illness?
10. What did Gifty feel in freshman biology class where she says she first learned “what and where the vagina truly was” (133)?
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 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
Analyze Gifty’s relationship to her mother and how it changed over time.
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