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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’s brother die?
2. After Gifty’s brother was born in Ghana, who wanted to move to America?
3. What was the name of the church Gifty’s mother attended when Gifty was young?
4. Which word from a Bible verse, that had made Gifty find more importance in her journal writing, did Gifty later find meant something different that what she had thought?
5. Gifty feels she did not learn about her body until what class during her freshman year in college?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Gifty’s mother want to move to America after Nana was born?
2. Why did Gifty choose not to drink alcohol in high school?
3. What does Gifty’s mother ask in Chapter 6 after she finally eats her koko, and how does Gifty respond?
4. What is foreshadowed at the end of Chapter 24?
5. In Chapter 2, who calls Gifty from Alabama and what does he tell her about her mother?
6. What happened when Gifty’s mother found that she and Nana had gotten into the hidden food?
7. How old was Gifty when she went to Ghana to stay with her aunt and why did she go?
8. What did Gifty ask her mother while she was putting on makeup to get ready for work, and how did her mother respond?
9. What did Gifty’s childhood nickname, asaa, mean?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the paragraph on page 46 about her memories of Chin Chin. What does this tell readers about her portrayal of him in the novel? Is it reliable?
Essay Topic 2
Transcendent Kingdom is written from Gifty’s point of view. Why did the author choose this? What would have changed had it been written from her mother, her father, or her brother’s point of view?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze Gifty’s relationship to her mother and how it changed over time.
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