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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Gifty’s mother’s code name in her journal?
2. In Chapter 21, Gifty finds her mother doing what in her apartment?
3. After seeing four other teenage girls from her church get pregnant Gifty felt a particular kind of what fell on her church?
4. What does Gifty purchase to use to cook her mother Ghanaian food?
5. At what university is Gifty’s lab in Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Gifty choose not to drink alcohol in high school?
2. What happened when Gifty’s mother found that she and Nana had gotten into the hidden food?
3. In Chapter 6, what did Gifty witness between her brother and mother when she was a young girl?
4. What did Gifty’s childhood nickname, asaa, mean?
5. How does Gifty describe the way her mother changed depending on the language she spoke?
6. What did Gifty feel in freshman biology class where she says she first learned “what and where the vagina truly was” (133)?
7. What is foreshadowed at the end of Chapter 24?
8. Gifty said her mother noticed America changed around Big Black men. How did Gifty’s mother say her father’s behavior changed in response?
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 did Gifty’s mother react in Nashville when Nana said he no longer wanted to play soccer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write and essay on what Nana’s relationship to sports might represent in relation to his relationship with his father.
Essay Topic 2
What is the Still Face Experiment described in Chapter 10 and how did Gifty compare it to her relationship with her mother?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Gifty’s thoughts on her mother when she held the mouse in Chapter 45.
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