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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 is Gifty’s mother’s code name in her journal?
2. When basketball took precedent over Nana’s church attendance, Gifty began going. The pastor ended every sermon asking who was ready to do what?
3. In Chapter 8, Gifty said she never drank because she feared what?
4. After Mr. Thomas funeral, Gifty’s mother made her father pull the car over so she could do what after hearing someone speak ill of the dead?
5. What do they call Gifty’s father?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Gifty’s Aunt point out to her in the market in Ghana in Chapter 1 and what did she say?
2. What fact does Gifty mention at the end of Chapter 3 that she and her mother “ignore” (11)?
3. How does Gifty’s mother describe the Chin Chin man?
4. What did Gifty ask her mother while she was putting on makeup to get ready for work, and how did her mother respond?
5. What does Gifty’s mother ask in Chapter 6 after she finally eats her koko, and how does Gifty respond?
6. What do Gifty and Katherine have in common?
7. Despite not liking his poetry, what connection did Gifty feel with the poet they studied, Gerard Manley Hopkins, in one of her classes?
8. 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?
9. How does Gifty describe the way her mother changed depending on the language she spoke?
10. How did Gifty’s mother react in Nashville when Nana said he no longer wanted to play soccer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the end, Gifty ends up with Han. Analyze Han’s character and why you think Gifty is capable of a relationship with him.
Essay Topic 2
Describe Gifty’s thoughts on her mother when she held the mouse in Chapter 45.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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