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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. In Chapter 4, the letters to God asked if God was where? 


2. In Chapter 21, while Gifty’s mother is cooking plantains in oil, Gifty asks her if she remembered putting what on Nana’s foot?

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

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

5. In Chapter 16, Gifty has lunch with which colleague, who is half-hour late?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Gifty and Katherine have in common?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

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. Describe Gifty’s final thesis experiment discussed in Chapter 14.

9. What did Gifty feel in freshman biology class where she says she first learned “what and where the vagina truly was” (133)?

10. What did Gifty’s childhood nickname, asaa, mean?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about Gifty’s ongoing conflict between science and religion. When did it begin and how did it manifest over time? Discuss her brother’s death, her experience in college, and her work.

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

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?

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