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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. Though Gifty’s dad talked a lot during their visit, what did he avoid discussing?
(a) Nana and her mother.
(b) His work.
(c) His family.
(d) His home.

2. What did Gifty begin worrying about after she was saved?
(a) God’s punishment.
(b) Her classmates' souls.
(c) Her grades slipping.
(d) Sinning.

3. After picking Nana up from rehab, at what restaurant did he assure Gifty and her mother that he wanted to stay clean?
(a) Burger King.
(b) Chick-fil-A.
(c) Taco Bell.
(d) McDonalds.

4. During the fight that Gifty discusses in Chapter 37, what did her mother say while he tried to ram the door open?
(a) Lord protect my son.
(b) Come in.
(c) Who is it?
(d) Get away.

5. At the end of Chapter 32, when Gifty and her brother brought Nana home, what did their mother do to him?
(a) Took him to church.
(b) Slapped him.
(c) Kicked him out.
(d) Hugged him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gifty’s most Ensure-addicted mouse develop in expectation of being shocked?

2. In Chapter 29, Gifty was at church when she decided it is time for what?

3. Gifty says that her brother’s addiction became what in her church?

4. In Chapter 40, what does Gifty start to leave on while her mother is in bed in hopes she might get up, if even in anger?

5. What does Gifty mother ask Gifty about the mice she experiments on?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the state Gifty finds her mother after coming home thinking that she was better because she did not find her in bed.

2. At what point did Gifty’s mom suspect Nana’s addiction?

3. When Nana was withdrawing at home in Chapter 31, how did their mother treat him?

4. What did Gifty’s brother say about the girl who made fun of her Walmart clothes that makes Gfity feel better even though she knows he should not have said it?

5. Describe the moment, which Gifty says is the closest thing her mother came to an apology to her children?

6. After Nana’s relapse following rehab, Gifty says she “went quiet and [her] mother went insane” (171). How did her mother behave in church that made Gifty feel she had gone insane?

7. Though they knew of Nana’s addiction, why did they feel so surprised when the police officers told them that he had died of an overdose?

8. What did Ryan Green tell Gifty about her constant reading?

9. What does Gifty’s mother tell her on the stretcher that Gifty did not know before?

10. In Chapter 38, how does Gifty respond when Katherine asks her why she got into her field of study?

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