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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 did Ryan tell Gifty she should do instead of read books?

2. How long was Gifty in Ghana before she asked her aunt to see her father?

3. In Chapter 31, where does Gifty say her mother found Nana’s pills hiding?

4. Where was Gifty often the only church volunteer?

5. Where did Gifty find her mother after searching the house when she came home to find she was not in bed in Chapter 40?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Gifty’s brother say about the girl who made fun of her Walmart clothes that makes Gfity feel better even though she knows he should not have said it?

2. When Gifty told a college friend about her brother’s addiction and overdose, how did the friend respond?

3. In Chapter 37, what does Gifty say is useless about her journal entries during Nana’s addiction?

4. Describe the moment, which Gifty says is the closest thing her mother came to an apology to her children?

5. What conversation about Nana did GIfty overhear between her mother and father in Chapter 37?

6. In Chapter 28, how does Gifty describe how she would often find her brother after he began taking drugs?

7. What does Gifty’s mother tell her on the stretcher that Gifty did not know before?

8. In Chapter 38, how does Gifty respond when Katherine asks her why she got into her field of study?

9. What did Gifty notice about her mother at Mrs. Palmer’s funeral?

10. What did Ryan Green tell Gifty about her constant reading?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Describe Giftys’ relationship with Katherine and how it changes over time. How is it different from her other relationships?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze Gifty’s relationship to her mother and how it changed over time.

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