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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Gifty studying at Stanford University School of Medicine?
(a) Flu vaccines.
(b) Neural circuits of reward-seeking behavior.
(c) Sleeping medication.
(d) Mother-daughter relationships.

2. What Shakespearean play did Raymond’s colleague quote when Gifty was discussing her work?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Midsummer’s Night Dream.

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

4. Where did Gifty’s dad work as a janitor?.
(a) A daycare.
(b) A grocery store.
(c) A college.
(d) A restaurant.

5. As a child when Gifty’s pastor defined sin as “anything you think, do, or say that goes against God”(73) what did she wonder if you could control?
(a) Your parents.
(b) Pastor John’s sermons.
(c) God.
(d) Your thoughts.

6. What is Gifty’s mother’s code name in her journal?
(a) Koko.
(b) The Black Mamba.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Nana.

7. What type of thinking does Gifty say in Chapter 25 that P.T. was trying to protect the church from?
(a) Progressive.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Sinful.
(d) Lustful.

8. What was the name of the church Gifty’s mother attended when Gifty was young?
(a) First Africans of God Church.
(b) First Assemblies of God Church.
(c) The Ghanaian Association.
(d) Ghanaian Church of God.

9. What nickname did Gifty’s mother give her as a child?
(a) Gifty.
(b) Sweetie.
(c) Asana.
(d) Asaa.

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

11. What is Gifty’s brother's name?
(a) Han.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Raymond.
(d) Nana.

12. What food, a favorite from her childhood does Gifty try to feed her mother in the novel's present timeline?
(a) Koko.
(b) Bofrot.
(c) Fried Plantain.
(d) Fufu.

13. Gifty’s letter to God in Chapter 20 said that Buzz told her Christianity was what?
(a) Strict.
(b) A cult.
(c) The only way.
(d) Foolish.

14. In Chapter 1, where was Gifty staying while her mother healed?
(a) New York.
(b) Ghana.
(c) California.
(d) Alabama.

15. In Chapter 16, Gifty compares the sunny day at the restaurant to the dreary days when she lived where?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Ghana.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Gifty’s brother die?

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

3. In Chapter 22, Gifty tells Han a story of how her brother wanted what to help him improve his basketball game?

4. In Chapter 21, while Gifty’s mother is cooking plantains in oil, Gifty asks her if she remembered putting what on Nana’s foot?

5. What did Gifty’s father say people in Ghana had in “abundance” despite being poor?

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