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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What teacher urged Gifty toward science?
(a) Ms. Thomas.
(b) Mr. Cline.
(c) Mrs. Paternack.
(d) Mrs. Pastornack.

2. What does Gifty tell her dates she gets mice hooked on?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Vitamins.
(c) OxyContin.
(d) Heroin.

3. What did Gifty’s mother believe lived in her cousin’s apartment when she first moved to Alabama?
(a) Her father.
(b) A transient.
(c) A ghost.
(d) Her great great grandmother.

4. Who did Gifty’s mother suggest she write letters to in Chapter 10?
(a) Nana.
(b) God.
(c) Her father.
(d) The Chin Chin Man.

5. Whose daughter’s pregnancy is discussed at the start of Chapter 26?
(a) Ryan Green.
(b) The Chin Chin Man’s.
(c) Pastor John.
(d) P.T.

6. Gifty suspected that her mother was jealous of Chin Chin’s relationship with whom?
(a) Nana.
(b) Pastor John.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Mr. Thomas.

7. After Gifty’s brother was born in Ghana, who wanted to move to America?
(a) Pastor John.
(b) Gifty.
(c) Gifty’s mother.
(d) Gifty’s father.

8. What does Gifty purchase to use to cook her mother Ghanaian food?
(a) A microwave.
(b) A blender.
(c) A deep fryer.
(d) An oven.

9. In Chapter 16, Gifty has lunch with which colleague, who is half-hour late?
(a) Katherine.
(b) Kim.
(c) Han.
(d) Karen.

10. In Chapter 22, Han finds Gifty attaching what to her mice’s implants?
(a) A fiber-optic patch cord.
(b) An optical illusion.
(c) A fiberglass patch.
(d) Ensure.

11. Which word from a Bible verse, that had made Gifty find more importance in her journal writing, did Gifty later find meant something different that what she had thought?
(a) Logos.
(b) Pathos.
(c) God.
(d) Word.

12. Who is Gifty’s lab mate at Stanford?
(a) Raymond.
(b) Han.
(c) Steven.
(d) Katherine.

13. The party Gifty recalls in Chapter 21 was for what group?
(a) The Ghana Association.
(b) The First Assemblies of God Church.
(c) The basketball team.
(d) The soccer team.

14. What poet did Gifty study in her poetry class?
(a) Edgar Allen Poe.
(b) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Walt Whitman.

15. After seeing four other teenage girls from her church get pregnant Gifty felt a particular kind of what fell on her church?
(a) Shame.
(b) Misery.
(c) Gossip.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. When basketball took precedent over Nana’s church attendance, Gifty began going. The pastor ended every sermon asking who was ready to do what?

2. What did Raymond ask Gifty to talk about so his friends could get to know her better?

3. How old was Gifty’s mother when she met her father?

4. Where is the narrator’s childhood home?

5. What is Gifty’s brother's name?

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