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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 school did Gifty attend in Massachusetts?

2. Who is Gifty’s lab mate at Stanford?

3. What is the scripture that Gifty says gave her trouble in Chapter 10?

4. What did Nana’s doctor prescribe him after he injured himself during a basketball game at Ridgewood High?

5. As a child when Gifty’s pastor defined sin as “anything you think, do, or say that goes against God”(73) what did she wonder if you could control?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Gifty’s mother react in Nashville when Nana said he no longer wanted to play soccer?

2. In Chapter 2, who calls Gifty from Alabama and what does he tell her about her mother?

3. 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?

4. In Chapter 6, what did Gifty witness between her brother and mother when she was a young girl?

5. What did Gifty’s Aunt point out to her in the market in Ghana in Chapter 1 and what did she say?

6. Describe the “intervention” (131) the church had on the young woman of the congregation.

7. What does Gifty’s mom think of mental illness?

8. What fact does Gifty mention at the end of Chapter 3 that she and her mother “ignore” (11)?

9. What were some of the things, described in Chapter 8, that Gifty dreamed of being as a child?

10. Why did Gifty’s mother want to move to America after Nana was born?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What theme does the work Gifty does and the mice she works with represent in Transcendent Kingdom?

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

In the end, Gifty ends up with Han. Analyze Han’s character and why you think Gifty is capable of a relationship with him.

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