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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. The morning after finding Nana passed out in the park, Gifty’s mother said she was sending him to what city to get help?
2. In Chapter 31, what sound did Gifty’s mother tell her we should all learn?
3. Which of Gifty’s friend was forbidden from going to her house after Gifty confessed her brother’s addiction to her?
4. In Chapter 36, Gifty reflects on the fact that growing up, and even in college, she heard or learned little of what?
5. Where did Gifty volunteer though she was not old enough?
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. What did Gifty note about her aunt and mother when Gifty and her aunt were at the airport in Ghana before Gifty headed back to America?
3. What does Gifty’s mother tell her on the stretcher that Gifty did not know before?
4. In Chapter 28, how does Gifty describe how she would often find her brother after he began taking drugs?
5. In Chapter 49, after Gifty could not sleep for a week and her mother found her up in the night watching T.V., who did Gifty tell her mother she talked to and how did her mother react?
6. How did Gifty feel when she saw her father in his home in Ghana?
7. After Nana’s relapse following rehab, Gifty says she “went quiet and [her] mother went insane” (171). How did her mother behave in church that made Gifty feel she had gone insane?
8. What did Ryan Green tell Gifty about her constant reading?
9. At what point did Gifty’s mom suspect Nana’s addiction?
10. When Gifty was saved in Chapter 29, she felt sorry for the souls of her classmate until she discovered what?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is Gifty’s relationship like with her father? Use examples from the text including her tone when speaking to or about him.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Gifty experiences several emotional changes throughout Transcendent Kingdom. In what ways does she change? What about her remains the same? Does her process reflect healing? If so, how?
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