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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The study mentioned at the opening of Chapter 24 was on what mental illness?
(a) Bipolar.
(b) Narcissism.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Depression.

2. Who did Gifty have call her mother in hopes to help improve her mood?
(a) Pastor John.
(b) Nana.
(c) PT
(d) Her Father.

3. Who was Gifty’s boyfriend, who told her she could explain her work to him the hard way?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Han.
(c) Raymond.
(d) Steven.

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

5. Gifty feels she did not learn about her body until what class during her freshman year in college?
(a) Integrated Science.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Creative Writing.
(d) Biology.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, the letters to God asked if God was where? 


2. Studying Gerard Manley Hopkins inspired Gifty to begin writing what?

3. What did Gifty witness her brother smash when fighting with their mother?

4. Whose daughter’s pregnancy is discussed at the start of Chapter 26?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Gifty’s classmate Geoffrey say when she told him she is really a princess?

2. What fact does Gifty mention at the end of Chapter 3 that she and her mother “ignore” (11)?

3. In Chapter 25, when Gifty begins reading the Bible since her mother will not touch it, what does she notice that she did not notice as a child?

4. What did Gifty’s childhood nickname, asaa, mean?

5. In Chapter 6, what did Gifty witness between her brother and mother when she was a young girl?

6. How did Gifty’s mother react in Nashville when Nana said he no longer wanted to play soccer?

7. Despite not liking his poetry, what connection did Gifty feel with the poet they studied, Gerard Manley Hopkins, in one of her classes?

8. What did Gifty’s Aunt point out to her in the market in Ghana in Chapter 1 and what did she say?

9. In Chapter 2, who calls Gifty from Alabama and what does he tell her about her mother?

10. Why did Gifty choose not to drink alcohol in high school?

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