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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. Whose party does Gifty attend with her grad school cohort?
(a) Han.
(b) Charles.
(c) Katherine.
(d) Raymond.
2. What did Gifty’s father say people in Ghana had in “abundance” despite being poor?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Health.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Vegetables.
3. What does Gifty purchase to use to cook her mother Ghanaian food?
(a) A deep fryer.
(b) A blender.
(c) A microwave.
(d) An oven.
4. What is Gifty studying at Stanford University School of Medicine?
(a) Sleeping medication.
(b) Mother-daughter relationships.
(c) Flu vaccines.
(d) Neural circuits of reward-seeking behavior.
5. What did Gifty and her aunt try to sell in the market in Ghana?
(a) Perfume.
(b) Koko.
(c) Mice.
(d) Knock-off Handbags.
Short Answer Questions
1. Gifty’s letter to God in Chapter 20 said that Buzz told her Christianity was what?
2. In Chapter 21, Gifty finds her mother doing what in her apartment?
3. At the start of Chapter 27, Gifty says that Nana did what all year long?
4. What did Gifty witness her brother smash when fighting with their mother?
5. What does Gifty use as the “reward” for her mice during her experiments?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Gifty’s mother react in Nashville when Nana said he no longer wanted to play soccer?
2. What did Gifty’s childhood nickname, asaa, mean?
3. Despite not liking his poetry, what connection did Gifty feel with the poet they studied, Gerard Manley Hopkins, in one of her classes?
4. Gifty said her mother noticed America changed around Big Black men. How did Gifty’s mother say her father’s behavior changed in response?
5. What does Gifty’s mother ask in Chapter 6 after she finally eats her koko, and how does Gifty respond?
6. Describe Gifty’s final thesis experiment discussed in Chapter 14.
7. What do Gifty and Katherine have in common?
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 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?
10. How does Gifty describe the way her mother changed depending on the language she spoke?
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