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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. How did Gifty, Nana, and their mother get home from Nashville?
(a) Greyhound bus.
(b) Uber.
(c) Airplane.
(d) Lyft.
2. In Chapter 18, what did Gifty’s mother tell her she needed to be in order to be baptized?
(a) Older.
(b) Better.
(c) Bathed.
(d) Saved.
3. In Chapter 4, the letters to God asked if God was where?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Space.
(c) In her heart.
(d) At church.
4. In Chapter 13, what food did Gifty’s mother complain that Nan’s teammates wasted?
(a) Chips.
(b) Apples.
(c) Oranges.
(d) Juice.
5. What is Gifty studying at Stanford University School of Medicine?
(a) Flu vaccines.
(b) Sleeping medication.
(c) Mother-daughter relationships.
(d) Neural circuits of reward-seeking behavior.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who did Gifty’s mother suggest she write letters to in Chapter 10?
2. What does Gifty apologize for when she and her mother arrive at her apartment?
3. At what university is Gifty’s lab in Chapter 2?
4. What was the name of the church Gifty’s mother attended when Gifty was young?
5. In Chapter 1, where was Gifty staying while her mother healed?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 7, what did Gifty tell her classmates about her grandfather?
2. How did Gifty’s mother react in Nashville when Nana said he no longer wanted to play soccer?
3. What were some of the things, described in Chapter 8, that Gifty dreamed of being as a child?
4. What did Gifty feel in freshman biology class where she says she first learned “what and where the vagina truly was” (133)?
5. Gifty and Anne become good friends. Describe how Anne describes Gifty at the end Chapter 26.
6. 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?
7. Why did Gifty choose not to drink alcohol in high school?
8. What did Gifty ask her mother while she was putting on makeup to get ready for work, and how did her mother respond?
9. What is foreshadowed at the end of Chapter 24?
10. In Chapter 2, who calls Gifty from Alabama and what does he tell her about her mother?
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