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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. In Gifty’s college poetry class, a student asked if it was possible to analyze Hopkins without discussing his religion and what?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Biology.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Sexuality.

2. In Chapter 31, what sound did Gifty’s mother tell her we should all learn?
(a) The sound of death.
(b) God.
(c) Church bells.
(d) Sleeping.

3. When Gifty was in Ghana, her mother stopped doing what, but resumed going to church?
(a) Praying.
(b) Going to therapy.
(c) Eating.
(d) Sleeping.

4. What theory of child development is described in Chapter 45?
(a) Mahler’s individual separation.
(b) Mahler’s separation-individuation.
(c) Mahler’s Still Face experiment.
(d) Deep Brain Stimulation.

5. In Chapter 45, what does Gifty’s mother ask to hold?
(a) A mouse.
(b) Her hand.
(c) The lever.
(d) Ensure.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What story from the Book of John does Gifty often think about and find hard to believe?

3. What is one of the things Gifty says her brother stole from his mother?

4. In Chapter 45, when Gifty sees her mother getting dressed, where does her mother ask to go?

5. What book did a TA, Fred, give to Gifty, in what she suspected was an effort to keep her from going to his office so often with questions?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 49, after Gifty could not sleep for a week and her mother found her up in the night watching T.V., who did Gifty tell her mother she talked to and how did her mother react?

2. How did Gifty’s feelings for Pastor John change after he visited them after Nana dies?

3. In Chapter 28, how does Gifty describe how she would often find her brother after he began taking drugs?

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. What conversation about Nana did GIfty overhear between her mother and father in Chapter 37?

7. What did Gifty note about her aunt and mother when Gifty and her aunt were at the airport in Ghana before Gifty headed back to America?

8. 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?

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

10. How did Gifty feel when she saw her father in his home in Ghana?

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