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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. Gifty overheard two ladies from church discussing her brother’s addiction and attributing it to what?

2. During the fight that Gifty discusses in Chapter 37, what did her mother say while he tried to ram the door open?

3. Which young member of their church, though a friend of Nana, did Gifty dislike?

4. What did Gifty begin worrying about after she was saved?

5. Gifty decided to tell Anne the story of when she did what to Nana while he was sleeping?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Gifty’s feelings for Pastor John change after he visited them after Nana dies?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

Write an essay about Gifty’s ongoing conflict between science and religion. When did it begin and how did it manifest over time? Discuss her brother’s death, her experience in college, and her work.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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