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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 story from the Book of John does Gifty often think about and find hard to believe?

2. In Chapter 43, Gifty’s letter to God says she was made fun of for wearing clothes from what store?

3. What is one of the things Gifty says her brother stole from his mother?

4. What did Gifty say when she looked up at the trees in Harvard Forest, to which Anne nodded as if she understood?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Describe the state Gifty finds her mother after coming home thinking that she was better because she did not find her in bed.

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

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. Though they knew of Nana’s addiction, why did they feel so surprised when the police officers told them that he had died of an overdose?

9. When Nana was withdrawing at home in Chapter 31, how did their mother treat him?

10. How did Gifty feel when she saw her father in his home in Ghana?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Describe the moment when Gifty is saved in Chapter 29 and 30. Discuss what was happening in her life at the time.

Essay Topic 3

Describe Gifty’s thoughts on her mother when she held the mouse in Chapter 45.

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